Dental Care Then and Now Dental care has come a long way from ancient times to the modern era. While today we have advanced ...

Ancient Egyptians around the 4th century AD are the first ... eggshells and pumice," according to Frank Lippert of the Indiana University School of Dentistry. Egyptians, however, were not alone in ...

Lesions found in ancient skulls suggest that cancer could have been a medical issue long before our time. Ancient Egyptian ...

The finds include mummies from many social classes, some of whom were buried alongside relatives after succumbing to disease ...

Ancient Egyptians developed an early form of pregnancy ... They performed surgeries, set broken bones, and practiced dentistry. They also used a wide range of medicinal plants and treatments ...

Wellcome Library, London. Some of the earliest examples of tooth decay are the tooth erosion found in ancient Egyptian skulls, believed to have been due to eating coarse bread and fibrous vegetables.

The development of osteoarthritis was more common among scribes than their ancient Egyptian peers, a study finds. Ancient Egyptian scribes worked in cramped and hunched over positions that were so ...

A new study which examined skeletons has shed light on the increased risk of bone-related conditions for ancient Egyptian ...

While Egyptian scribes’ lives have been studied in detail, their archaeological remains have never before been examined for ...

Living in a world that is obsessed with physical perfection, naturally one would become curious to see what is available.

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

An amateur brewer in Utah gathered rare figs and a strain of yeast from 850 B.C. to make a sour, fruity concoction inspired by ancient Egyptian recipes. By Alexander Nazaryan The idea came to ...