Researchers have suspected two Egyptian artificial toes are the world's oldest known prosthetic body parts. A new study suggests that is the case: Volunteers without a big toe showed the prosthetics ...

Researchers have suspected two Egyptian artificial toes are the world's oldest known prosthetic body parts. A new study suggests that is the case: Volunteers without a big toe showed the prosthetics ...

Move over, Nefertiti! Queen Nefertari tells her story in “Queen Nefertari’s Egypt,” now on view at the Kimbell Art Museum through March 14. This exhibition explores Egypt’s New Kingdom period (c. 1529 ...

Two 'prosthetic legs' in the shape of a toe of a human foot excavated with a mummy in Egypt. Experiments conducted in the UK demonstrated that these prosthetic legs were not only supplementing the ...

Last month the museum opened a 45,000-square-foot area on the first floor of its West Wing devoted to the role of innovation and invention throughout US history. Among exhibitions devoted to those ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The hieratic stela (TR. 27.6.24.3) in the Egyptian Museum Cairo represents an interesting deposition which belongs to the sandal maker, Penōne ...

Until now, an artificial leg made of bronze and wood and found buried with a Roman aristocrat in southern Italy dating to 300 b.c. was thought to be the first prosthesis. Finch's work suggests, ...