4,000 year-old Egyptian skulls show attempts at brain ... By Laura Baisas. Published May 29, 2024 12:00 AM EDT. Skull ... proving that ancient Egyptian medicine was also conducting ...

A male skull, dated from 2,687 to 2,345 B.C., had a large lesion surrounded by 30 or so small metastasized lesions around it. Tondini, Isidro, Camarós, 2024 May 29, 2024, 11:40 AM EDT ...

Skull and mandible 236, dating from between 2687 and 2345 BCE, belonged to a male individual aged 30 to 35. Skull E270, dating from between 663 and 343 BCE, belonged to a female individual who was ...

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.

The skull has a large dent that is partially healed, indicating an attempt at brain surgery that was halted. The skulls and other material suggest possible sacrificial intent.

It’s often appropriate to say that a particular practice “isn’t brain surgery” — except when it is. That may be the case in incisions to an ancient Egyptian skull that shows signs of an operation, ...

A 4,600-year-old Egyptian skull had cut marks surrounding several lesions that appeared to be metastasized brain cancer, suggestive of a surgical attempt at treatment or postmortem exploration.

The older brother had a piece of bone removed from his skull, possibly in an attempt to treat debilitating diseases, the researchers said. The discovery may be among the earliest evidence in this ...

A pair of ancient Egyptian skulls, both thousands of years old, ... Ancient Egyptian skull shows oldest attempt at cancer surgery. Patrick Smith. Updated Wed, May 29, 2024 at 11:25 PM UTC.