Imagine combining the skills of a top surgeon, a royal dentist, and a master magician—all wrapped up in one ancient Egyptian practitioner who served pharaohs 4,000 years ago. That's exactly what ...

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 ...

(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 ...

More than 3,000 years before the first hospital opened its doors, healers in the ancient world were already experimenting ...

An Egyptian doctor who smuggled hundreds of artifacts excavated from graves and dig sites in his nation into the U.S. for profit will spend six months in federal prison, a Brooklyn judge ruled ...

Ever wondered what Cleopatra might have reached for when she had a headache? Or what remedies filled the medicine cabinets of pyramid builders? Turns out, one of ancient Egypt’s most treasured healing ...