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Ancient Egypt is known to be the place of one of the early civilisations. They identified, described, and treated diseases and traumatic injuries, built prostheses, and put in dental fillings. Now, new evidence from a skull more than 4,000 years old has revealed that ancient Egyptian physicians may have also tried to treat certain cancers with surgery.

The finding, published on Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Medicine , is a combined effort of researchers from the Universities of Tubingen in Germany, Cambridge in England, Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Here’s all we know about it. The ancient Egyptian skull The first skull belonged to a man who died between the ages of 30 and 35, as per IANS .



It is kept in the University of Cambridge’s Duckworth Laboratory collection in the United Kingdom. Scientists have examined the scarred surface of the skull since the middle of the 19th century. Among the lesions are those that are assumed to be the result of malignant tumours damaging the bone.

The skull, numbered 236 in the collection, is regarded by archaeologists as one of the earliest instances of cancer in antiquity, dating back to between 2686 BC and 2345 BC. A second skull from the Duckworth collection also had cancerous tumours, according to the researchers. Un estudo liderado pola USC ( @Edgard_Camaros ) revela posibles intentos de tratar o cancro nun cranio exipcio de 4.

000 anos. https://t.co/k4qfk9bha4 pic.

twitter.com/wk2Qvh9zvR Skull E270, dated to.

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