Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years and 164 days in 1997, setting a record as the world’s most long-lived person that is still unsurpassed. “Analysing all these materials led me to conclude that Jeanne Calment’s daughter Yvonne assumed her mother’s identity,” Zak told AFP. Zak, a member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists at Moscow State University, recently published his report called “Jeanne Calment: the Secret of Longevity” on ResearchGate, a portal connecting scientists around the world. It’s a very good piece of work and an argument in favour of exhuming the bodies of Jeanne and Yvonne Calment,” he said. “But at the time Jeanne Calment was already considered a national heroine.

Source: Egypt Independent January 02, 2019 12:45 UTC