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“Extraordinary” 4,000-Year-Old Egyptian Skull Reveals Surgical Attempts at Cancer Care
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoFrom ancient texts, we know that – for their times – the ancient Egyptians were exceptionally...
I took my kids on a British Museum out-of-hours tour, it was even better than I expected
USA TODAY via AOL· 4 days agoIt feels like a private tour without the private tour pricing. There were a few tour options to...
Black Women's Deep Relationship With Wigs Isn't What You Think It Is
InStyle· 4 days agoBlack women have a complicated relationship with our hair. To find out more, we turned to hair...
Cleveland Museum of Art to Return a Rare Ancient Icon to Libya
New York Times· 6 days agoThe two-foot-tall antiquity, most likely chiseled during ancient Egypt’s Ptolemaic Dynasty, was a...
The Fascinating and Often Unknown History Behind Our Favorite Dog Breeds
MediaFeed via AOL· 6 days agoWe’ve found the histories of a few well-known and some more obscure dog breeds to find out how...
Somehow the ancient Egyptians were advanced enough to try cancer surgery, study says
Quartz· 6 days agoPrevious research has found compelling evidence that medical practitioners in ancient Egypt...
Huge Ancient Egypt breakthrough as skull could unlock 4,000-year-old secrets
Daily Express· 7 days agoThe team also found two healed lesions from traumatic injuries on skull E270. Seeing such a wound on a female is uncommon, and most violence-related injuries are found on males. Prof Isidro ...
MEDICAL INSIGHTS: A lack of vitamin C can lead to scurvy
The Post and Courier· 2 days agoScurvy is a disease caused by lack of adequate intake of vitamin C. For humans this is an essential...
Two ancient Egyptian skulls show how long cancer has been an issue for humans
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 2 days agoTwo skulls from ancient Egypt appear to show marks left by cancerous tumors -- and one of the skulls appears to have markings that indicate an attempt at surgery to remove them.
Barry Kemp, who unearthed insights about ancient Egypt, dies at 84
Art Daily· 6 days agoBarry Kemp, an archaeologist whose decades of painstaking digging at the abandoned capital of a mysterious pharaoh helped revolutionize our understand