Ancient Egyptians may have tried to treat cancer with surgery more than 4,000 years ago, a study has revealed. Scientists studying skulls from the era say they have found physical evidence of invasive procedures for brain tumours that prove physicians were trying to learn more about a disease we now call cancer.
Our research observes, by looking directly into human bones with cancerous lesions, that they performed an oncological surgery, lead author Edgard Camaros, a palaeopathologist studying ancient diseases at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, told Al Jazeera.
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