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Poor old Irtyersenu: 184 years after benefitting from the world's first mummy autopsy, it appears the 2,600 year-old Egyptian's cause of death had been called wrong all along. A new study by experts at University College London has dismissed Augustus Bozzi Granville's 1825 verdict of ovarian cancer as false, while reserving praise for the doctor - who caused a media storm when he performed the procedure almost two centuries ago.