In the journal Frontiers in Medicine published The research done believes that these two skulls tell about the advanced surgery methods of ancient Egypt. It is feared that the person with skull fracture may have survived. If so, it suggests that Egyptian doctors were able to treat serious head injuries. It is more difficult to interpret the cut marks on the skull with cancer, but they may indicate that the Egyptians were performing some type of surgery to remove tumors.
This research is important because it reveals new facts about the advancement of ancient Egyptian medicine. This shows that Egyptian doctors were not only able to diagnose and treat cancer, but they were also able to perform complex surgical procedures.
“We wanted to learn about the role of cancer in the past, how prevalent the disease was in ancient times and how ancient societies reacted to this pathology,” said Tatiana Tondini, a researcher at the University of Tübingen and first author of the paper. “
Researchers say that in one of these skulls they have found a large lesion which indicates abnormal growth of tissues. There were also several other small lesions around the skull suggesting that it had metastasized. The team also noticed knife marks around each of these wounds as if someone had deliberately tried to cut out these cancerous growths.
Newsweek’s AccordingThe skulls he examined are from the Duckworth Collection at the University of Cambridge. The first, dated between 2687 and 2345 BC, was of a man aged between 30 and 35, while the second, dated between 663 and 343 BC, was of a woman over 50 years old.