Ancient Egyptians may have tried to treat cancer 4,000 years ago
Two skulls dating from Ancient Egypt and stored at the University of Cambridge might bear the earliest known signs of cancer treatment. Thin cuts on one of the remains dating about 4,000 years could either be signs of surgery to remove cancer or a “postmortem medical exploration”, according to a new study published in the science journal Frontiers in Medicine. The skull is thought to have belonged to a 30 to 35-year-old man living between 2,686 and 2,345 BCE, around the same time the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. The second remains are dated between 664 and 343 BCE and belonged to a woman o...