An elite Bronze Age man who underwent brain surgery 3,500 years ago may have suffered from leprosy, archaeologists believe
Images showing magnified edges of the trephination and the reconstructed location of trephination on head. Kalisher et al./PLOS ONE Journal 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…
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