Ancient Egyptian Medical Experts Apparently Tried to Treat Brain Cancer [Video]

The ancient Egyptians were known for making extraordinary advances in medicine, which put them way ahead of their time. A new study just published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine certainly highlights their skills and achievements in this area, as it produces evidence to show that Egyptian healers apparently tried to treat cancer in an individual who lived in Egypt more than 4,000 years ago.

To learn more about the incidence of cancer in ancient Egypt, and to discover how such problems might have been addressed, a team of medical researchers from Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom carried out a study of two skulls that had been held in the Duckworth Collection at Cambridge University for many years.

One of these skulls featured a large lesion that indicated immense tissue destruction, which is caused by a type of brain tumor that can grow in a person who suffers from a condition known as neoplasm. But what shocked the researchers was their discovery …