Surgery From Bronze Age Detected on Child’s Skull
<i> Associated Press</i>
JERUSALEM —
Archeologists said they have found evidence of crude surgery on the skull of a child who died 4,200 years ago.
The 8-year-old child apparently died during the operation, the Antiquities Authority said Sunday.
Bronze Age surgeons using metal scrapers opened an oblong, matchbox-size hole in the top of the skull to either release pressure or drain an infection, archeologist Joe Zias said.
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