Skull and mandible 236, dating from between 2687 and 2345 BCE, belonged to a male aged 30 to 35. It’s often appropriate to say that a particular practice “isn’t brain surgery” — except when it is. That may be the case in incisions to an ancient Egyptian skull that shows signs of an operation, according to a newResearchers in the study examined two skulls from the University of Cambridge’s Duckworth Collection, curious about the role of cancer in ancient Egypt.
“There is a narrow window of time when the surgical cut marks could have been performed,” says Camarós. Another specimen, “Skull E270” doesn’t show signs of surgery. But it is perhaps no less remarkable, for several reasons.
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