Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pair of ancient Egyptian skulls, both thousands of years old, belonged to some of history's earliest known cancer patients, ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

Two skulls from ancient Egypt appear to show marks left by cancerous tumors — and one of the skulls appears to have markings that indicate an attempt at surgery to remove them. We tend to think of ...

Researchers say elongated alien-like skulls found in ancient graves were shaped in infancy and carried different meanings across cultures.

Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today. By Jordan Pearson Fluctuating disease rates, ...

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A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, cemented in place by mineral deposits, it launched a scientific mystery that would ...

We tend to think of cancer as a modern affliction, but it's stalked humanity for millennia. Now, two ancient skulls confirm just how far back our relationship with this disease goes. Science reporter ...