Analysis of 4,000-year-old Egyptian Skull Reveals Something 'extraordinary' That Leaves Researchers 'stunned'

The Debrief ^ | May 30, 2024 | Christopher Plain

[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.

[al baby]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162751/posts

[null and void]

20 years? Seems like yesterday!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Ha,fat chance. I just remember it was a 2200 post thread about something or other that happened on the borber.

[SunkenCiv]

No, that’s where the builders lived, ate, and worked, because the Giza pyramids were constructed during the 4th dynasty.

[logi_cal869]

...some of which are known forgeries, but are included anyway.

I have my own opinions on ancient Egypt - which align with other unorthodox thinking - but it's a glaring red flag when a culture rewrites their prehistory through forgery.

Thusly, NONE of Egyptian 'written' history can be trusted as fact, and it's also a red flag that at every turn the 'Egyptology overlord' prevents any study which conflicts with the established narrative.

[sunny bonobo]

And you know that because? Or is it just an assumption?
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I KNOW that cause I have an IQ above 50 and can use logical thought processes.
The Egyptians did not even know the true functions of the brain. If they did, they would have thought of a better way to remove it during the mummification process and preserve for use in the person’s afterlife.
So a people that don’t know about the brain, know cellular and molecular biology?
Where are the ancient Egyptian texts on cellular biology, which they would have to have known to know what cancer was and how to treat it?
Where are the remains of their MRI machines? Where are the ancient texts of their chemotherapy methods?

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Slaves didn’t build the monuments of Egypt. Religion was a factor in their construction. Work on the project—get eternal life in the world over the sun. Work on the pyramids also got you a tax deduction, best medical care on planet Earth at the time and all the Beer, meat, and food you could drink. I believe it accidentally caused Egyptians to think of themselves as one people rather than a collection of villages—a form of nationalism. The real wonder is in the organization of the manpower. Still many mysteries linked to Ancient Egypt.

[Reily]

Read this book!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500052115/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[PIF]

I KNOW that cause I have an IQ above 50 and can use logical thought processes.

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😂😂😂😂😂

Let me know when your IQ slips above 55

[PIF]

The forgeries I mentioned are modern - one was found in a bazaar in the late 19th century, others are copies with additions which appear genuine.

Then there are legitimate lists with unknown kings, and others with known kings omitted. Kings often changed their names - sometimes a king was know by one name and later by another - worse, one of those new names might be of another king altogether.

They didn’t forge in the old days, they just omitted kings they didn’t like for whatever reason during the rein of one king, but in the next rein, the list might have the omitted kings because they had been ‘repatriated’ as their cults were resurrected by some priests in some temple.

Its extremely confusing, and if you have one opinion about the placement of a particular king and one of your colleges has a different one - it can come to blows, the temperaments being very heated, since their professional careers are at stake.

[PIF]

Right, Civ - but I don’t buy into the traditional approved time lines.

[Kommodor]

> something or other that happened on the borber.

Beebers on the borber? Oh, the horror!

Man, sometimes I miss old-time FR...

[logi_cal869]

The Egyptians have definitely scrubbed their history. I’m too busy to provide examples, but I’ve read of more than merely one.

“...since their professional careers are at stake.”

Yes, since that has now trumped ‘science’.

And, might I add, a financial incentive. (thanks a lot, hawass & fauxi).

[fishtank]

Hmmm.

I thought it was an interesting article.

[SunkenCiv]

The Sphinx head (at least) was recarved during the New Kingdom, and temples in front of the Sphinx were built of stone quarried out that basically created the Sphinx enclosure. The temples were refaced in perhaps Old Kingdom times, although one of the refacing stones was salvaged from something of OK date, as there’s part of an inscription on it, so it may have been refaced in Middle Kdm or New Kdm times.

The pyramids were built in order by the late 4th dynasty pharaohs, and there’s quite a lot known considering the attrition of written records over even that span of time.

[Elsie]

...4,000-year-old Egyptian Skull...

 

Does ANYONE do any research into this stuff before they start posting on FR?

https://www.worldhistory.org/Trephination/

[Elsie]

The Egyptians have definitely scrubbed their history.

Especially the ones who had an alphabet known as REFORMED Egyptian!

Nary a sample of it exists today, except for...

[Elsie]

There was a fairly famous fella of a couple of hundred years ago that actually DID get hold of some RE, incribed on Golden Plates, but these are no longer on the earth.

 

Since the Rosetta Stone had been found, but not yet decoded, even ordinary Egyptian heiroglyphics were a condundrum to language experts.

 

Did this present a problem to understanding RE??  Apparently not, for the translator - Joseph Smith - had stones of his own that allowed him to bring the ancient engraving back to life.

 

The English translation of the the Reformed Egyptian (now called The Book of MORMON) has been re-written into 82 earthly languages.

 

 

 

Later, when some ordinary Egyptian heiroglyphics on papyrus came into Josephs possession, his translation abilities had somewhat waned at this time.

 

Figure	Joseph Smith Explanation[52]	Explanation by non-Mormon and Mormon Egyptologists (quotes are from Deveria)[25][43][53]
	Kolob, signifying the first creation, nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God. First in government, the last pertaining to the measurement of time. The measurement according to celestial time, which celestial time signifies one day to a cubit. One day in Kolob is equal to a thousand years according to the measurement of this earth, which is called by the Egyptians Jah-oh-eh.	"The spirit of the four elements (according to Champollion), or rather of the four winds, or the four cardinal points; the soul of the terrestrial world. This god is always represented with four rams' heads, and his image has certainly been altered here. — They have also evidently made a very clumsy attempt at copying the double human head of the god figured above, fig. 2, instead of the four rams' heads. The word Jah-oh-eh has nothing Egyptian in it; it resembles the Hebrew word [redacted] badly transcribed." (emphasis in original) The name hieroglyph above the central figure is Chnm-Re, the Egyptian "First Creator" god who organized everything out of the primordial chaos.