Teratoma with Tooth A (lower) in situ and Tooth B (upper) retrofitted in crypt.Image credit: A. Deblauwe/Amarna Project
Posted on 11/12/2023 10:41:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv
An ancient Egyptian woman had an ovarian tumor with teeth and was buried with a possible healing object.
While excavating an ancient Egyptian cemetery, archaeologists made a rare discovery: an ovarian tumor nestled in the pelvis of a woman who died more than three millennia ago. The tumor, a bony mass with two teeth, is the oldest known example of a teratoma, a rare type of tumor that typically occurs in ovaries or testicles.
A teratoma can be benign or malignant, according to the Cleveland Clinic, and it is usually made up of various tissues, such as muscle, hair, teeth or bone. Teratomas can cause pain and swelling and, if they rupture, can lead to infection. In the present day, removal of the mass is the typical treatment.
Only four archaeological examples of teratomas had previously been found — three in Europe and one in Peru. The recent discovery of a teratoma in the New Kingdom period cemetery in Amarna, Egypt, both founded around 1345 B.C., is only the fifth archaeological case published, making it the oldest known example of a teratoma and the first ancient case found in Africa.
Amarna was a short-lived city on the eastern bank of the Nile River, about halfway between the cities of Cairo and Luxor (ancient Thebes). It functioned as the center of pharaoh Akhenaten's worship of the sun god Aten and was home to his royal court. Although the city included temples, palaces and other buildings that supported a population of around 20,000 to 50,000, it was abandoned within a decade after Akhenaten died...
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Teratoma with Tooth A (lower) in situ and Tooth B (upper) retrofitted in crypt.Image credit: A. Deblauwe/Amarna Project
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One of *those* topics.
Like in the movie Basket Case?
Rare, but teratomas still happen.
It was probably an absorbed twin.
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha sort:
Possibilities:
A snapper?
Teeth... creepy.
When you have a retired surgeon in the family you know this isn’t as unusual as they’re saying...
Remember when stem cells were the thing.
Embryonic stem cells caused teratomas when they attempted to use them therapeutically.
Medical texts are an interesting read.
Thank you-that was my 1st thought as well-around 30 years ago, a co-worker of mine had a small ovarian tumor removed that proved to be tissue and bone from a twin absorbed before any significant development. Interestingly, she had twin siblings, and her 3d pregnancy produced twin boys...
I recall at least one case where a preteen boy had a tumor or growth, and it turned out to be his own twin.
upcoming GGG topics.
Long-distance weaponry identified at the 31,000-year-old archaeological site of Maisières-Canal
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007080
In Photos: Tomb of Late Period royal scribe unearthed in Abusir necropolis
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/511543.aspx
3D scans will uncover the secrets of Iron Age gold treasure
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-3d-scans-uncover-secrets-iron.html
Rare cross-shaped reliquary unearthed from medieval knight’s home in Poland
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/rare-cross-shaped-reliquary-unearthed-from-medieval-knights-home-in-poland
this one was an open tab, and the text is gone and won’t reload for me:
New Research Reveals the Earliest-Known Organic Red Dye Dating Back 15,000 Years
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/egyptian-cult-drank-psychotropic-drugs-human-blood-2322064
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeology
this may have been posted:
Humans and Neanderthals mated 250,000 years ago, much earlier than thought
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/humans-and-neanderthals-mated-250000-years-ago-much-earlier-than-thought
lice, lice baby:
Lice DNA records the moment Europeans colonized the Americas
https://www.science.org/content/article/lice-dna-records-moment-europeans-colonized-americas
older topics related to this are numerous, leading to one of those links lists generated from the lice keyword.
My godson died of a very rare cancer. He had what’s best described as ectopic testicular cancer, in his chest.
While he was still in utero , they think a piece of testicular tissue broke free and settled in his chest. Twenty-five years later it had grown to about grapefruit size and morphed into a leukemia. He had no chance.
Twins definitely run in families.
My great aunt had 17 children but only 12 pregnancies. Triplets, 3 sets of twins, and the rest were single births. She was a busy woman.
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