Anyone familiar with stories involving ancient curses probably knows disturbing the dead – whether an entombed mummy or an abandoned burial ground – never ends well for the living. Such curses are ...

A wooden big toe that helped a priest's daughter walk about 3,000 years ago offers researchers insights about ancient medicine in Egypt. The ancient prosthesis that was discovered attached to a mummy ...

The 2,200-year-old remains of a man with a deformed knee attached to a prosthetic leg tipped with a horse hoof have been discovered in a tomb in an ancient cemetery near Turpan, China. The tomb holds ...

A wooden big toe that enabled a priest’s daughter to walk around 3,000 years ago has been found to be even more complex than researchers believed. It is thought to be one of the oldest prosthetic ...

(KRON/CNN) — One Switzerland University is researching a prosthetic toe that is 3,000 years old. It is amazing how old this prosthetic is and how advanced it is. Researchers at the University of Basel ...

In a press release, Egyptologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland say they have been studying a 3,000-year-old wooden toe found in a necropolis near Luxor, formerly known as Thebes. The ...

A big wood-and-leather toe from Egypt is the oldest prosthetic discovered so far, researchers believe, and provides an insight into the world of ancient medicine. Experts found the 3,000-year-old ...

BASEL, SWITZERLAND—According to a report in Swiss Info, researchers from the University of Basel, the University of Zurich, and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo re-examined a 3,000-year-old prosthetic toe ...

A wooden big toe that enabled a priest's daughter to walk around 3,000 years ago has been found to be even more complex than researchers believed. It is thought to be one of the oldest prosthetic ...