A 4,000-year-old skull provides new evidence that ancient Egyptian physicians performed surgery to remove a tumor, indicating they attempted to treat certain cancers surgically.
The skull, belonging to a man aged 30 to 35 at the time of his death,...
An ancient warrior whose previously broken jaw was mended with gold thread was recently unearthed in Greece; recent scholarship has revealed that he had been operated on using a technique propounded by the Greek physician Hippocrates 1,800 years earlier.
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An Israeli archaeological team has recently discovered significant artifacts from an "uncommon" sort of brain surgery, performed in approximately 1500 B.C. In the archaeological site of Tel Megiddo, a tomb was found to contain the skeletal remains of two...
