An "extraordinary" 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull shows signs of attempts to treat cancer. Cutmarks on the skull could be indications that the ancient Egyptians tried to operate on excessive tissue ...

An 'extraordinary' 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull shows signs of attempts to treat cancer. Cutmarks on the skull could be ...

However, medical texts from ancient Egypt indicate that healers of the time were aware of the condition. Now, new evidence from a skull more than 4,000 years old has revealed that ancient ...

The 4,000-year-old skull and mandible of an Egyptian man show signs of cancerous lesions and tool marks, according to a recent paper published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine. Those marks ...

An ‘extraordinary’ 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull shows signs of attempts to treat cancer. Cutmarks on the skull could be indications that ancient Egyptians tried to operate on excessive tissue ...

A pair of ancient Egyptian skulls, both thousands of years ... the other was a female and dated from 663 to 343 B.C. The male skull had a large lesion surrounded by 30 or so small metastasized ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Egyptians were performing some medical ... in the University of Cambridge’s Duckworth Collection. Skull and mandible 236 dates back from between 2687 and 2345 ...

Archaeologists have announced a rare and extraordinary discovery made in the Egyptian desert. Scientists found the nearly complete skull of a new 30-million-year-old “top apex” predator.