Two skulls from ancient Egypt appear to show marks left by cancerous tumors — and one of the skulls appears to have markings that indicate an attempt at surgery to remove them. We tend to think ...

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 ...

During the Middle Ages, trepanation was performed to treat such ailments as seizures and skull fractures. Ancient Egypt also had quite advanced medical knowledge for treating specific diseases and ...

An 'extraordinary' 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull shows signs of attempts to treat cancer. Cutmarks on the skull could be ...

A British auction house is facing criticism for selling 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls. The skulls come from the collections of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, a 19th-century British general.

Archaeologists have announced a rare and extraordinary discovery made in the Egyptian desert. Scientists found the nearly complete skull of a ... is a new species of ancient Hyaenodonta: a deadly ...

The sharp teeth and powerful jaw muscles preserved on the skull suggest that it had a very strong bite. The specimen is named after the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet. Bastet ...

DANIEL: Tondini and her colleagues wanted to examine two skulls from the collection whose records reported evidence of cancer. The first was from an adult woman who lived in ancient Egypt some ...