Why our ancestors drilled holes in each other’s skulls0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 12, 2019
Thousands of years ago, people were performing a form of surgery called “trepanation” that involves boring holes through a person’s skull
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The Crumbling Ancient Texts That May Hold Life-Saving Cures0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- July 1, 2017
Seven hundred years ago, Timbuktu was a dream destination for scholars, traders, and religious men. At the southern edge of the Sahara desert in what is now Mali, travelers from Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Egypt, and Morocco met in the bygone metropolis to exchange gold, salt, and ideas. According to a description of Timbuktu in 1526 by the diplomat Leo Africanus, “more profit is to be made there from the sale of books than from any other branch of trade.”
Some Neanderthals were vegetarians who used natural forms of penicillin and aspirin as medicine0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 29, 2017
‘Apparently, Neandertals possessed a good knowledge of medicinal plants … the use of antibiotics would be very surprising, as this is more than 40,000 years before we developed penicillin’
4,000-Year-Old Stone Scalpels Found in Peru Shed Light on Ancient Medical Practices0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 19, 2016
A team of archeologists has unearthed a set of slate-stone instruments that are similar to scalpels. The artifacts are 4,000 years old and are believed to have been used by ancient Peruvian healers to make surgical incisions on patients.
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