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 ...

Much longer than many people realize. This is probably the world’s first prosthesis—a wooden toe that dates back to before 600 B.C. There is another quite like it from around 950-710 B.C., and ...

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.

Her anatomical anomaly may have been lost to time, had it not been for the discovery of her mummy in 1997, with a wooden toe still attached to the skeletal foot. Smoothly sculpted and complete ...

Though it beautifully imitates a natural toe, it may have also helped the wearer with balance. Its stitching and mixed leather and wooden construction likely made it much more comfortable than ...

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 prostheti ...

A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3000-year-old prosthesis. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 06 / 170620093118.htm ...

Researchers have found out that prosthetic wooden toe was created 3,000 years ago. The justified their research by focusing on the Egyptian priest’s daughter’s artificial wooden toe that was ...