The paper ‘Biomechanical Assessment of Two Artificial Big Toe Restorations From Ancient Egypt and Their Significance to the History of Prosthetics’ is available on request. A brief paper was published ...
By flexing and extending our toes, we generate the push-off force that is needed to propel ourselves forward. Other ...
Two artificial big toes – one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy – may have been the world’s earliest functional prosthetic body parts, says the scientist who tested replicas on ...