When archaeologists excavated the remains of two brothers from more than 3,500 years ago in Megiddo, northern Israel, they weren’t expecting one of the brothers to have a square-shaped hole in his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists found new evidence of trephination, a medical procedure that entails cutting a hole in the skull, as early as the late Bronze Age in the ancient city of Megiddo, Israel. Rachel Kalisher ...

Archaeologists know that people have practiced cranial trephination, a medical procedure that involves cutting a hole in the skull, for thousands of years. They've turned up evidence that ancient ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 excavating the ancient city of Megiddo in modern-day Israel have discovered a window into medicine’s ancient past: the 3,500-year-old bones of two brothers, both bearing signs of an ...

While excavating a tomb from an ancient Bronze Age city, archeologists were surprised to discover the remains of a man who appeared to undergo brain surgery thousands of years ago. Trephination — a ...