A possible case of palmar fibromatosis in a 1st-millennium-BC mummy from the Assassif necropolis, Luxor, Egypt

• Milton Núñez ^[1] ; Joaquín Baxarias ^[2] ; Rosa Dinarés ^[3] ; Valerie Fontaine ; Elena Garcia-Guixé
  1. [1] Oulu University
  2. [2] Centre Médica! Vermont
  3. [3] Hospital General de Catalunya

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• Localización: Canarias Arqueológica: Arqueología-Bioantropología, ISSN 1888-4059, Nº. 22, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Symposium in memoriam Arthur C. Aufderheide the scientist, the friend ( 1922-2013)), págs. 469-482
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  • As members of the anthropological unit of the Monthemhat Project (2007- 2009), we had the opportunity to examine dozens mummified individuals, including a mature man that had lived in Luxor in the earlier half of the 1st millennium BC. His left hand presented a deformation consistent with palmar fibromatosis.This diagnosis was chosen even if it seemed then somewhat out of place.The geographical distribution of palmar ftbromatosis has led to the idea that the disease has Nordic origins and that it had been spread by Vikings, hence "Viking disease", but the ailment has been reported recently from areas lacking Nordic ancestry. In any event, if the Theban man had indeed suffered from palmar fibromatosis, then we are dealing with the earliest known case. That would push the occurrence of the disease back by at least 1500 years and place its origins geographically far from its assumed Nordic associations.