4,000-year-old Egyptian skulls reveal earliest attempt to surgically treat cancer
Treating cancer was beyond the capabilities of physicians from antiquity, but they still tried their best.
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Treating cancer was beyond the capabilities of physicians from antiquity, but they still tried their best.
Ancient Egyptian were medical masters of their time. The Egyptian physicians treated everything from cranial fractures to dental issues with impressive success. Treating cancer was a struggle, although evidence suggests they may have tried.
Ancient Egypt is known to be the place of one of the early civilisations. New evidence from skulls more than 4,000 years old has revealed that physicians from the region may have also tried to treat certain cancers with surgery
Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today.
'Cancer was still a medical knowledge frontier.'