Desk jobs can take a surprising physical toll on the body. White collar workers complain of stiff necks, sore lower backs and aching joints. It may bring them little relief to find they continue a ...

A study of skeletal remains dated to the 3rd millennium B.C. has revealed the occupational hazards that ancient Egyptian scribes may have faced thousands of years ago. The study, published in the ...

Repetitive stress injuries are a common feature of modern life, especially for office workers who spend a good chunk of their working days at a desk typing on a computer. Apparently, scribes in ...

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones. Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the men sat cross-legged or kneeled hunched over papyrus scrolls, ...

Performing administrative tasks in ancient Egypt may not sound physically demanding, but new research has revealed that being a scribe left a mark on the skeletons of the men who held those privileged ...

The scriveners of ancient Egypt were more than papyrus pushers, but they suffered many of the same repetitive ailments as desk jockeys today, a new study suggests. A statue of Amenhotep as a seated ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scene from Ramose While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a ...

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