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HARUN YAHYA

chaeologists, because no historian expected such a highly developed
technology in a civilization that existed in the 3,000s BCE.
X-ray analysis of mummies has revealed that brain surgery was
performed in Ancient Egypt. 43 What is more, these operations were
carried out using highly professional techniques. When mummy
skulls that underwent surgery are examined, it can be seen that the
incisions of the surgery have been cut very neatly. Skull bones that
have fused back together prove that the patients survived long after
such operations. 44
Another example concerns various medicines. Giant strides
th
were made in medicine in the 19 century due to the rapid progress
made in experimental science, including the discovery of antibiotics.
Yet the word "discovery" is not strictly accurate, because many of
these techniques had already been known to the Ancient
Egyptians. 45
Some of the most important evidence of just how advanced the
Egyptians were in science and anatomy lies in the mummies they
left behind them. They used hundreds of different techniques in the
process of mummification, which permits the bodies of living things
to be preserved for thousands of years.

The Egyptians'
mummification
techniques
demonstrate
that they pos-
sessed ad-
vanced medical
knowledge.

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