The 2,000 year old skull of a Peruvian warrior was found to have been fused together with metal in one of the world's oldest examples of advanced surgery, according to a museum. The Museum of ...

In 2020 and 2021, the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma posted photographs of a 2,000-year-old skull with a feature that might be surprising to modern audiences. The skull had evidence of a surgical ...

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 ...

The procedure is an example of Trepanation, a practice with a long history in the region where the skull was discovered You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have ...

People may joke about someone having a steel plate in their head, but in the case of punctures to the skull, that often ends up actually being the case – the hole in the bone is plugged with a ...

The 88-year-old former India skipper, implanted with the plate in 1962, underwent the procedure in Mumbai’s Reliance hospital to prevent any infection. Former India skipper Nari Contractor was on ...

He continued to play after that and encouraged me to take up the sport, son Hoshedar says Nari Contractor recuperating at his hospital bed after the surgery for removal of metal plate in his skull ...

Doctors have removed a metal plate from the skull of India's former cricket captain Nari Contractor - 60 years after it was put in following a near-fatal bouncer by West Indies' Charlie Griffith. The ...