A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in ...

The surgery had been performed with stone or bone tools, perhaps to treat epilepsy, migraines, or behavioral problems.

Surgical interventions that require drilling a hole in the skull are now known as “trepanation.” People may have begun using this process earlier than the 19th century when modern neurosurgery began.

Paul McCartney revealed in a 1986 interview in Musician magazine that John Lennon once asked him and his wife, Linda, "You fancy getting the trepanning done?" He was referring to trepanation surgeries ...

In the 1860s, a U.S. newspaper editor, author, and amateur archaeologist named E.G. Squier traveled to Cuzco, Peru. He visited the home of a wealthy woman who collected antiquities to view an ancient ...

Two skulls with perforations have been exhumed in the area of Gormaz in Soria, Spain. They have been dated from the 13th and 14th centuries -- a period in which trepanation was not commonly practiced.

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 word trepanation refers to the old surgical practice of making a hole in someone's head to relive pressure. No, Trepanation Art Gallery doesn't feature that as one of its services, but the 3-month ...

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