The ancient Egyptians were known for making extraordinary advances in medicine, which put them way ahead of their time. A new study just published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine certainly highlights their skills and achievements in this area, as it produces evidence to show that Egyptian healers apparently tried to treat cancer in an individual who lived in Egypt more than 4,000 years ago.
To learn more about the incidence of cancer in ancient Egypt, and to discover how such problems might have been addressed, a team of medical researchers from Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom carried out a study of two skulls that had been held in the Duckworth Collection at Cambridge University for many years.
One of these skulls featured a large lesion that indicated immense tissue destruction, which is caused by a type of brain tumor that can grow in a person who suffers from a condition known as neoplasm. But what shocked the researchers was their discovery of a series of cutmarks around the lesion which would have been made by a metal instrument with an extremely sharp edge – in other words, by a medical tool.
Skull E270, dating from between 663 and 343 BC, being examined using microscopic analysis and CT scanning. (Tondini, Isidro, Camarós, 2024/Frontiers)
This was a most unexpected find. While it is known that the Egyptians could treat many illnesses successfully even thousands of years ago, up to now there had been nothing discovered in the archaeological record indicating any kind of…
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