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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered early evidence of brain surgery after the discovery of two brothers buried beneath the floor of a late Late Bronze Age-era building. Trephination is the surgical ...

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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 ...

In January of 1987 human skeletal remains were recovered from site 32EM128 along the shoreline of Lake Oahe in Emmons County, North Dakota. The skull of an adult female displayed a large circular ...

The remains of two brothers were found in a Bronze Age tomb in the city of Tel Megiddo, Israel. Archaeologists were surprised to find the evidence of brain surgery in the skeleton of a person ...

Surgical interventions that require drilling a hole in the skull are now known as “trepanation.” People may have begun using this process earlier than the 19th century when modern neurosurgery began.

Beginning with Hippocratic physicians and continuing well into the 19th century, phlebotomy was an accepted therapeutic tool. Phlebotomy was perceived to be scientifically sound because it restored ...