Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man who had brain surgery

Tall individual was somewhere between 17 and 24 years old, with evidence indicating he may have had a hormone-related growth condition ...
AOL.co.uk

Viking Age mass grave unearthed near Cambridge with remains of ‘extremely tall’ man who had brain surgery

A group of students on a training dig have unearthed a Viking-era mass grave on the outskirts of Cambridge containing the dismembered remains of an “extremely tall” man who had seemingly undergone ...
New York Post

Discovery of Viking-era man’s skull points to evidence of world’s first surgical procedure

The skull of a Viking-era man who had part of his skull cut out in the world’s oldest surgical procedure has been unearthed. The remains of a man between 17 and 24 revealed a large oval hole in his ...
The Sun

Haunting Viking-era ‘execution pit’ stuffed with bodies found in UK including ‘extreme’ GIANT with ‘perforated skull’

A HAUNTING Viking-era mass grave stuffed with dismembered bodies has been uncovered in the UK – and may have been an “execution pit”. The grim burial site is packed with skulls, legs, entire skeletons ...
BBC

Trepanned skull of Viking-era man found in mass grave

The skeleton of a young 6ft 5in-tall (1.9m) Viking-era man who had undergone trepanation has been found in a mass grave. A hole had been bored in his skull while he was alive. It had signs of healing ...
The Irish Times

Departures by Julian Barnes: Enjoyable rambling, a story and a grateful goodbye

When is a novel not a novel? To be fair, there is a story in here but Barnes has some digressing to do, some departures to make before we get to it. In the opening pages alone we touch on everything ...
ancient-origins

Trephination: The Oldest Evidenced Surgery Still in Use Today?

Trephination (known also as trepanning, trepanation, trephining, or making a burr hole), is a surgical procedure, which involves the drilling of a hole in the skull of a living person. Trephination is ...
Mental Floss

5 Dangerous Things That Were Once Considered Medicine—From Mummy Consumption to Milk Transfusions

Recently, an item from the collection of London’s famous Victoria and Albert Museum caused something of a stir online when the museum’s metalwork curator unboxed a rare antimonial cup dating back to ...
Nature

Research Items

Prehistoric Trepanning in Europe IN connexion with the record of a trepanned skull of the Beaker Period found in a group of round barrows at Crichell Down, Dorset, in 1938, Stuart Piggott discusses ...
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Battlefield Surgery In The Age of Gunpowder | The Gruesome History

Historian Dan Snow meets Kevin Goodman to learn how battlefield surgery progresses in the 16th/17th centuries to deal with a deadly new technology - gunpowder 00:35 Intro 01:20 The invention of ...
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Manage your emotions, in 9 minutes

From trepanning to lobotomies, humans have long struggled to manage emotion. Today, we have better tools. Psychologist Ethan Kross shares what actually works, and why. 18 killed as jet crashes into ...