Cancer was probably created by man, a new study has found.
Scientists at the University of Manchester, UK, have study the mummified remains of Egyptians and found no evidence of cancer, suggesting that it was created at some point down the line.
Ancient corpses from Egyptians and Grecians, along with ancient literature was studied, and hardly any references to cancer was found, people in the past simply didn’t die from cancer.
Cancer rates sky rocketed with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, a time where we saturated our Earth with vast amounts of chemicals that had not been present before.
Everything became processed from the foods we eat to the clothes we wear, the Industrial Revolution turned the world from pastoral and ‘natural’ to that of the manufactured, the un-natural.
The study was carried out at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, and lead researcher Professor Rosalie David said:
“In industrialized societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare.
There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer…
…So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.
The important thing about our study is that it gives a historical perspective to this disease.
We can make very clear statements on the cancer rates in societies because we have a full overview.We have looked at millennia, not one hundred years, and have masses of data.”
There are only three examples that exist that have found microscopic evidence of cancer in antiquated skeletons.