Posted on 06/04/2024 9:14:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An international team of researchers studying a 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull that had signs of cancer say they have found evidence that ancient Egyptian medical practitioners knew about and potentially even tried to treat the deadly disease...
While previous studies have revealed that Egyptians from these periods were able to identify, describe, and treat diseases and traumatic injuries, build prosthetics, and even place dental fillings, this study is the first to show that these surprisingly advanced ancient people may have tried to treat cancer around the same time they were building the pyramids...
To conduct their analysis, the researchers were able to procure two separate skulls that showed signs of cancerous lesions. The first, dubbed "Skull and mandible 236," has previously been dated to between 2687 and 2345 BCE, while the second, "Skull E270," has been dated to between 663 and 343 BCE. For comparison, the Great Pyramid of Giza is believed to have been built over a period of about 27 years...
When examining the roughly 30 small, metastasized lesions and one large lesion likely caused by neoplasm spread across Skull 236 under a microscope and also using a CT scanner, the researchers say they were "stunned" to discover something unexpected: clear cutmarks around a number of the lesions...
After finding evidence of cutmarks on the 4,000-year-old Egyptian Skull known as 236, the team performed a similar analysis of Skull E270. Like the older sample, E270 also had a large lesion the researchers described as "consistent with a cancerous tumor that led to bone loss." However, unlike the other skull, this specimen had two smaller, "healed" lesions likely caused by traumatic injuries. Furthermore, one of the smaller lesions appears to be the result of a "close-range violent event" involving some sort of sharp instrument.
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Oh definitely!
We, who were about to reference the same ancient riposte to the stuned mention, salute you.
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What a piece of crock article. A huge leap to go from simple Cutmarks to “cancer surgery”.
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Exactly. There’s no possible way they knew what cancer was or how it formed, or ways to treat it.
They were just doing the obvious thing. Trying to cut off lesions or odd growths.
What a piece of crock post.
Do you remember who first said it?
Some bone head
More nonsense, how nice.
Breweries for the production of beer must have been impressive. All beer and baking done by women. They ate a kind of pizza of flat bread, cheese onions and meat The beer was endless too. You can get a lot done with a whole population of people behind you. Egyptians were good at organization if nothing else.
Once a bonehead, always a bonehead...
Great, now I’m hungry. :^)
“Egyptians were good at organization if nothing else.”
Slavery works for a while—until the slaves get rebellion on their mind.
Goa’uld medicine wasn’t that advanced yet?
The whole effort was no building the Giza complex. The monuments were build on one grand golden angle plan - all are interconnected by golden angles and Fibonacci spirals,
The only dating test (Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ) on the smallest and supposedly the newest one, came out 500 years older than thought. No further tests were permitted by the Antiquities Dept.
What they found was the restoration of previously existing monuments. Which at the minimum preceded the Archaic Period ( followed by the Old Kingdom Period ).
All of Ancient Egyptian dating is currently based on various Kings Lists, some of which are known forgeries, but are included anyway.
Where the workers for the restoration lived and worked.
I don’t imagine obesity was a big problem for pyramid workers.
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They only worked after they had brought their crops in to feed their families until the next planting season.
There’s no possible way they knew what cancer was or how it formed, or ways to treat it.
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And you know that because? Or is it just an assumption?
Yes it was both a way of paying taxes and a religious obligation.
Giza workers were mostly farmers, not slaves. The only slaves were captives taken in battle.
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