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This 3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe Shows Early Artistry of Prosthetics

When we think about Ancient Egypt, we might well believe that injuries such as losing a big toe would cripple a person that existed then for life. Not so. Research has found that the Ancient Egyptians made wearable and comfortable prostheses as far back as 600 BC. Two prosthetic big toes, one still attached to a mummy in a museum, have been studied at the University of Manchester. The results show that they were worn and helped their owners walk. One is a three-part toe – comprised of wood, leather and a hinge – housed in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. The other, called the Greville Chester big toe, was made of cartonnage – a papier maché type substance – and is displayed at the British Museum.

Dr. Jacky Finch, from the University of Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, recruited two volunteers who had lost their big toes to try on exact replicas of the two Egyptian artificial toes and wear them with Egyptian type sandals. One of the volunteers had no trouble walking well with either toe, while both found the Cairo toe very comfortable.

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