Cataract surgery is one of the oldest surgical procedures known, first documented in the fifth century BC. [12] In ancient times, cataracts were treated with a technique called couching ...

Ancient Egyptians appear to have carried out surgery on people with cancerous ... "This finding is unique evidence of how ancient Egyptian medicine would have tried to deal with or explore cancer ...

An ancient, 4,000-year-old skull, stored at the University of Cambridge has revealed that Egyptian physicians tried to treat certain cancers with surgery. According to researchers, the skull ...