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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

• _yb2s 2y ago
  Great article that pretty well explains the situation with modern vs ancient life expectancy.
• orwin 2y ago
  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.