一位在公元前 800 年去世的埃及女性的木乃伊刚刚接受了一次手术。
The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation.
这具木乃伊是谢普恩穆特的，她曾经是底比斯神庙的一名歌手。
The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes.
由于木乃伊的 X 光片上有奇怪的痕迹，医生们一直在努力查明这位女性是否死于某种罕见疾病。
As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease.
做到这一点的唯一方法就是手术。
The only way to do this was to operate.
手术持续了四个多小时，结果证明非常困难，原因是覆盖在皮肤上的坚硬树脂。
The operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin.
医生们取出了木乃伊的一部分，并将其送往实验室。
The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory.
他们还发现了一件 X 光片没有显示出来的东西：一个杜阿穆特夫神的小蜡像。
They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef.
这位具有牛头形象的神明通常被安放在木乃伊内部。
This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy.
医生们尚未决定（查明）这位女士是如何死亡的。
The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died.
他们担心木乃伊在切开时会碎成碎片，但幸运的是，这种情况并没有发生。
They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened.
这具木乃伊成功地经受住了手术。
The mummy successfully survived the operation.