The finding reveals the earliest example of trephination in the ancient Near East, scientists said. The two brothers discovered were likely elite or even royal members of their society. While ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The earliest evidence of an “uncommon” type of brain surgery performed some time around 1500 BC has been unearthed by archaeologists in Israel. Scientists examined the remains of two individuals – ...

From the early 1900s until well past the middle of the 20th century, the standard treatment for breast cancer was radical mastectomy, which was first performed in 1882 by William Halsted, a professor ...

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 ...