Signs of Brain Surgery in 2000 BC Unearthed
From Reuters
BAGHDAD, Iraq —
Doctors in ancient Mesopotamia carried out operations on the brain around the year 2000 BC, a West German expert was quoted Tuesday as saying.
“Human skulls found by our team working at the southern Iraqi city of Esen proved to have been exposed to brain surgery,” Prof. Bartel Roda, leader of a West German archeological expedition, told the newspaper Al Iraq.
Esen, 135 miles south of Baghdad, dates back to 2000 BC and was the capital of a dynasty that ruled Mesopotamia centuries before the foundation of Babylon.
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