Iron Age Surgeons Fixed a Woman's Shattered Jaw With Primitive Prosthetic—and She Survived

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Iron Age Surgeons Fixed a Woman's Shattered Jaw With Primitive Prosthetic—and She Survived

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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 6 days ago

Researchers revisited a 2,500-year-old mummified skull, uncovering signs of an extreme surgical procedure—which the ancient woman survived.

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