Posted on 10/09/2006 10:31:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Bulgarian archaeologists claim to have unearthed evidence that brain surgery was carried out more than 4,000 years ago.
Georgi Nehrizov, heading a team digging near the city of Svilengrad, said a skull belonging to a man who lived in Thracian times had been found with a hole in it that had been carved out with surgical precision.
He said: "The skull dates back to 2500-1800 BC and the hole had clearly been made for medical reasons. It is the first such discovery from Thracian times."
The Thracians were a nation made up of numerous tribes that developed from a mixture of invading Indo-European and indigenous peoples in the Balkans over the centuries, starting from the Early Bronze Age.
They figure in the Iliad as allies of the Trojans, hailing from Thrace.
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ooooooooh thank you! i love stuff like this especially! :)
That may be wishful thinking or political correctness at work. What makes them think it wasn't some sort of punishment?
Or, early attempts at mind-reading.
We even have images on Ica Stones that show how they did it:
And the instruments they used: 
Now I'm REALLY going to cop it, I know....
Neat. I have always said the ancients were not as stupid and backward as many have tried to convience us they were.
"He said: "The skull dates back to 2500-1800 BC and the hole had clearly been made for medical reasons. "
It would ne interesting to know the medical reasons for this.
Injuries, removal of spear points and whatnot, and even severe headaches.
Painful way to relieve a headache!
;)
was it surgery or an autopsy? maybe they cut the hole after he died to let the spirits out.
The bone continued to live and grow after the procedure, indicating those who partook of it lived months or years.
:') They didn't have willow trees available...
John Anthony West, a fringe writer (and in recent years, a dyed in the wool hater of GWB et al) once said that, we like to think of the people of the past to be woefully backward and superstitious, unlike "smart old us with our hydrogen bombs and striped toothpaste." :')
:)
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