A wooden toe strapped to a mummy is being hailed as the oldest prosthesis ever found. Sporting a leather device and engraved with a toe nail, the artifact is thought to have belonged to an ancient ...

An ongoing reexamination of an ancient Egyptian wooden toe is shedding new light on how the remarkable wooden prosthetic was manufactured, and whether it was used for cosmetic or functional purposes.

A wooden big toe that enabled a priest's daughter to walk around 3,000 years ago has been found to be even more complex than researchers believed. It is thought to be one of the oldest prosthetic ...