Cancer is often regarded as a disease of the modern age. 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.
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Edgard Camarós and his team were looking at a screen connected to a powerful camera aimed at an Egyptian skull from about 4,500 years ago. What they saw changed the
Scientists have discovered evidence that ancient Egyptians not only suffered cancer, but they'd tried to treat it or even operate on cancerous lesions.
They've made the remarkable discovery after examining two ancient Egyptian skulls at the University of Cambridge in Britain.
Guest: Professor Edgard Camaros, palaeontologist at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain
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