If an alien civilization far more advanced than anything on Earth existed thousands of years ago, would they have embedded a piece of metal inside someone’s skull? That is, at least, what this looks ...

Although scientists are still unsure how the brain works, one thing's for sure: since the cromagnon days of man, mentally ill people have benefited from a good trepanation. For some reason, a crude ...

Scientists analyzed the skull of a medieval woman who once lived in central Italy and found evidence that she experienced at least two brain surgeries consistent with the practice of trepanation, ...

The skeletal remains of two Bronze Age brothers buried more than 3,400 years ago in what's now northern Israel reveal that the siblings lived with severe health problems but had access to treatments, ...

Trepanation—the technique of removing bone from the skull by scraping, sawing, drilling or chiseling—has long fascinated those interested in the darker side of medical history. One stock tale is that ...

(CNN) — When the brick coffin of a young woman from medieval Italy was opened after its discovery in 2010, two peculiar things stood out to the researchers: There was a perfect hole in the frontal ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About 5,000 years ago, humans used crude stone tools to puncture a hole in a cow's head, making ...

You might think you need an extra hole in your head like… well, a hole in your head. But trepanation has been hailed as the “oldest surgery.” Medical professionals have long since abandoned the ...

If you’re going to get a hole drilled into your skull, you don’t want to use just any tool. (Though most of us would avoid the skull-drilling in the first place.) One researcher used four different ...

IN THE early 1960s, a young Russian neurophysiologist called Yuri Moskalenko travelled from the Soviet Union to the UK on a Royal Society exchange programme. During his stay, he co-authored a paper ...