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5,000-Year-Old Russian Skull Offers Evidence Of Brain Surgery Made With Stone Scalpel

AncientPages.com | October 23, 2020

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many ancient civilizations performed sophisticated cranial surgery. Ancient nomads of Siberia created a major skull surgery center about 2,300–2,500 years ago. “Archaeologists excavating

Ectocranial view of palaeopathological specimen: a) red arrow points to orifice on the mastoid process,and b) surgical preparation dimensions peripheral to trephination. Credit: Anagnostis P. Agelarakis/Adelphi University

Archaeology

Early, Complex Brain Surgery Performed In Ancient Greece

AncientPages.com | April 8, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ten skeletal remains—four women and six men likely of high social standing—were discovered in the Paliokastro site on Thasos island in Greece. Their bones