Did the Interstellar Aliens do both this AND the pyramids? Or maybe the West isn’t quite as ingenious as early in human history, comparitively, as we thought we were? 🙂 It is hard to digest the idea that there is always some neighbor smarter, faster, better than we are. With enough humility, however, we can realize that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.
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Kenneth Howard
In 2015, scientists examining an Egyptian mummy of a woman in her fifties from the New Kingdom period—around 3,500 years ago—made a startling discovery. Inside her right knee, CT scans revealed a 23-centimeter metallic object, carefully implanted and held in place by an organic, glue-like substance that had bonded with bone and tissue.
This was no accident or post-mortem damage—it was a deliberate surgical procedure. Astonishingly, the design showed a method for stabilizing bones and distributing weight remarkably similar to modern orthopedic techniques.
Experts were called in for analysis, including Dr. Richard Jackson, head of orthopedic surgery at Brigham Young University. After a detailed review, Jackson expressed his amazement: the precision of the screw placement and surrounding structures rivaled advanced procedures performed today. The materials used were intelligent, durable, and capable of supporting the joint over time.
Remarkably, this “internal fixation with metal screws” technique wouldn’t appear in Western medicine until 1741, when French physician Nicolas André pioneered it—over three millennia after it was practiced in ancient Egypt.
Jackson remarked at a press conference:
“Egyptology still holds many secrets. Had we discovered this just a hundred years ago, it could have saved centuries of trial and error in developing modern orthopedic surgery.”
This finding highlights the incredible ingenuity of ancient Egyptian medicine, a civilization whose knowledge sometimes surpasses even what we thought was modern innovation.
