Cancer existed long before humans, with paleontological evidence documenting tumors in prehistoric animals.   The first ...

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 ...

The sarcophagus of ancient Egypt 's most powerful pharaoh has finally been unearthed over 3,000 years after his death.

Dylan McDonnell, a self-described avid beer brewer, recently used yeast from ancient pottery to recreate what he called an ...

However, medical texts from ancient Egypt indicate that healers of the time were aware of the condition. Now, new evidence ...

An international team of researchers says it has found evidence of ancient Egyptians performing ... of human cancer dates back to Egypt from around 3000 BC. The Greek physician Hippocrates ...

The earliest recorded observation of cancer is in an ancient Egyptian medical text known as the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, ...