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Amm Atwa Moussa
Amm Atwa Moussa
Birth: 1849?
Egypt
Death: fl.1999
Egypt
Age: 150 years, 0+ days?
Country: EgyptEGY
Longevity myth

Amm Atwa Moussa real name Hajj Atwa Musa Saad Al-Aysi (1845? – August 1998) was an Egyptian longevity myth, who was claimed to be over 150 years old in 1999.

Biography[]

Hajj Atwa Musa Saad Al-Aysi claimed that he was born in Egypt on 1845. He had been married 60 years with his first wife, which after he has been married four times more and that he has 39 grandchildren. He also told how he remembered how he fled with his family in 1859 when he was 14 years old to Fayoum in order to avoid getting into the Suez Canal building work. He was working in fisherman to his whole life.

Amm Atwa Moussa died in August 1998 in Egypt at the claimed age of 153 years.

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