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Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine, 2200-2000
Although this skull shows four separate holes made by the ancient surgical process of trephination, they had clearly begun to heal. This suggests that although highly dangerous, the procedure was by no means fatal. Also known as trepanation, or trepanning, the process of making a hole through the skull to the surface of the brain might be carried out to treat a range of medical conditions or for m…
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- trephination
- human remains
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- trephination
- human remains
Providing institution
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Science Museum, London
Source
- L0058402
Identifier
- L0058402
- Science Museum A634844
- va96ydta
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:33:37.072Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:33:37.072Z