Trephination of Individual 1. A-B: Magnified edges of the trephination, each with a 2 mm scale bar. Images captured with a Leica EZ4D stereo microscope. C: All four edges of the trephination, scale ...

What can we learn from once-popular surgical procedures that have subsequently been abandoned? How did they get started, and what caused them to be discarded? This report provides examples of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered the remains of a man from the Bronze Age who had a rare brain surgery. The finding reveals the earliest ...

During the Bronze Age some 3,500 years ago, the town of Megiddo, currently in northern Israel, was a thriving center of trade. "It was already quite influential and powerful in the region, and had a ...

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Why did ancient peoples cut holes in their heads? The Woman of Pritschoena died around 4,500 years ago in what's now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Her skeleton was discovered in 1913 by a local ...

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Archaeologists discovered the remains of a man from the Bronze Age who had a rare brain surgery. The finding reveals the earliest example of trephination in the ancient Near East, scientists said. The ...