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I was at the Denver museum’s mummy exhibit and disturbed to see that they said the lady died at 30, a “normal age for death in those times”. You would think a museum should know better.

https://aeon.co/ideas/think-everyone-died-young-in-ancient-s...




Half the people died before 40 in the middle ages, discounting pre-5 mortality. I would assume it is lower for female, as first pregnancies had a 10% mortality rate (this rate increased after the middle age, until germ theory), and following ones carried a 2-5% mortality rates.


Great article that pretty well explains the situation with modern vs ancient life expectancy.




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