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 Egyptian ...

Using a combination of high-tech tools ... at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The results, published in the Journal of the American ...

He is equipped with rudimentary yet precise copper tools. With a steady hand ... with the pioneering efforts of the ancient Egyptians. Ancient Egyptian medical practices were incredibly advanced ...

Saqqara is located about 25 miles southwest of Cairo as "one of the most important cities in ancient Egyptian history," says the Ministry’s website. It adds, "Saqqara is truly an open-air museum ...

possible remnants of medical tools used to remove the cancer from the skull, either around the time of death or afterwards. TONDINI: Ancient Egyptian civilization was particularly advanced in ...

Combined with the healed blunt-force trauma observed on E270, "We see that although ancient Egyptians were able to deal with complex cranial fractures, cancer was still a medical knowledge frontier." ...

The earliest recorded observation of cancer is in an ancient Egyptian medical text known as the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, which dates back to around 3000 BC to 2500 BC. This text contains 48 ...