Archeologists have recently unearthed the 4,000-year-old tomb of an Egyptian physician at the famed Saqqara cemetery located 40 km southwest of Cairo. The mastaba tomb belonged to a royal doctor who ...

SAQQARA, Egypt - The arrest of tomb robbers led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists, protected by a curse and hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in the shadow of ...

A 6,500-year-old human mandible with trace remains of a beeswax filling is possible evidence of ancient dentistry, according to a study published in PLOS One (September 19, 2012). While it is unclear ...

The 4,100-year-old tomb of a doctor who "treated the pharaoh himself" has been discovered at the site of Saqqara in Egypt. The burial belongs to a doctor named "Tetinebefou," the Swiss-French team ...

While excavating an ancient Egyptian cemetery, archaeologists made a rare discovery: an ovarian tumor nestled in the pelvis of a woman who died more than three millennia ago. The tumor, a bony mass ...