Ancient Egypt is one of the earliest civilizations to have made significant breakthroughs in medicine. In ancient Egypt, physicians were already documenting their treatments, injuries, and operations ...

(CNN) — Cancer is often regarded as a disease of the modern age. However, medical texts from ancient Egypt indicate that healers of the time were aware of the condition. Now, new evidence from a skull ...

Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today. By Jordan Pearson Fluctuating disease rates, ...