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2,000-year-old skull of a Peruvian warrior found to be fused together by metal (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Experts from a US museum believe it could be one of the oldest examples of advanced surgery. The Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma said the skull is reported to have been that of a man who was injured in battle before undergoing surgery to implant a piece of metal in his head to repair a fracture.

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[–] ChapulinColorado 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was about to ask if it was done posthumously to honor or bury him. The description makes it seem like he might have survived the encounter which makes it kind of incredible to imagine and crazy to think about what happened after the encounter to end here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just because he might've been still "alive" at the point of "surgery", doesn't mean he actually survived the procedure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Would they have any way to tell other than bone growth?