Damascus-SANA
Archaeological discoveries still tell us many secrets of science and the process of life's development, the last of which is the refutation of the prevailing scientific belief that malignant diseases were known only to mankind in contemporary times.
During the symposium held by the Abu Rummaneh Cultural Center under the title “Human archaeological remains prove that cancer is a disease known to mankind at least one million seven hundred thousand years ago,” the historian and archaeologist Dr. Mahmoud El-Sayed confirmed that modern archaeological discoveries and the use of modern medicine and forensic techniques proved that the oldest case of tumor Cancer is documented in the fossil record of a living organism dating back to the remains of a turtle 1,700,000 years ago that was discovered in 2015 in a quarry in southwestern Germany.
As for the oldest case of cancer in humans on earth, in light of the current archaeological data, it is as explained by the master who specializes in reading the cuneiform alphabet and hieroglyphs in the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, one million seven hundred thousand years ago, where he discovered in a cave located in South Africa northwest of Johannesburg the remains of a short leg of an adult human. He was diagnosed with bone cancer, and the infection was confirmed thanks to computer technology, as it coincided with what patients with bone cancer are exposed to at the present time.
In denying the argument that malignant diseases are a result of contemporary lifestyle, Dr. Hassan Al-Mahbani explained that cancer is a genetic disease that is scattered in the human cellular genome and its appearance is as a result of a mutation with the possibility that it was transmitted to humans from other organisms in the form of a fungal infection.
Hadi Omran
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