Ancient Egypt - Mesir Kuno Check out this 3,000-year-old wooden toe prosthetic discovered on an Egyptian mummy. Researchers think the toe is one of the world's oldest prosthetic devices. New research found that the wooden toe was refitted several times. Based on the meticulous construction of the ancient prosthesis, the researchers determined the wearer โ a priest's daughter โ wanted the toe to look natural and be comfortable to wear. The Early Iron Age prosthesis was found in a tomb cut into the older burial chapel at the graveyard hill of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, west of Luxor, Egypt Tiye (also known as Tiy, 1398-1338 BCE) was a queen of Egypt of the 18th dynasty, wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of both Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun. She exerted an enormous influence at the courts of both her husband and son and is known to have communicated directly with rulers of foreign nations. The Amarna letters also show that she...
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