Egyptians got back pain too! Scribes had skeletal issues from sitting

Most of us have experienced the feeling of a bad back after sitting hunched at a desk for too long.

Now it turns out the ancient Egyptians were just the same.

A study shows that repetitive tasks carried out by ancient Egyptian scribes – high status men with the ability to write who performed administrative tasks – and the positions they sat in while working may have led to degenerative skeletal changes.

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