Oldest Fake Toes Made Walking Easier in Egypt The original Cairo
toe, made out of wood and leather, is housed at the Egyptian
Museum in Cairo. The toe was found attached to a female mummy.
CREDIT: The University of Manchester Researchers have suspected
two Egyptian artificial toes are the world's oldest known
prosthetic body parts. A new study suggests that is the case:
Volunteers without a big toe showed the prosthetics would have
made walking around in ancient Egyptian sandals much easier,
suggesting they were not just used in burial or in some other
non-practical way. One of the artifacts in question is the
Greville Chester toe, now in the British Museum. It dates back
before 600 B.C. and is made of cartonnage, an ancient type of
papier maché made with a mixture of linen, animal glue and
tinted plaster. The other is the wood and leather Cairo toe at
the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which was found on a female mummy
near Luxor and is thought to date back to between 950 and 710
B.C. If the parts were indeed use