The skull, which belonged to a Byzantine-era woman from central Italy, shows signs of surgery on at least two occasions. RELATED VIDEO
In the Lombard necropolis of Castello Tesino, which is a burial place between the sixth and eighth centuries, they found the skull of a woman who, according to scientists, could be the first victim of violence. IFLScience writes about it.
He is believed to have undergone a series of trepanations to treat a “systemic pathological condition”. There is a cross on his bones. It looks like it was made with a sharp metal tool.
“We found that the woman survived several operations, which underwent a long surgical therapy. It consisted of a series of successive drillings,” explained the author of the study, Ileana Micarelli.
Texts from the first, seventh, and 12th centuries indicate that cruciform trepanations were a common practice in antiquity. This is another confirmation of the idea that the marks were obtained as a result of some type of surgical intervention. This is one of the few archaeological evidences of trepanation performed by women in the early Middle Ages. For its part, it paves the way for future research to justify the risky surgical procedure at that time,” the scientists said.
Recall that earlier near the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, archaeologists unearthed a pyramid of an unidentified queen.
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