Ever had a headache so big, you felt like drilling a hole in your head to let the pain out? In Neolithic times, trepanation – or drilling a hole into the skull – was thought to be a cure for ...

Move over, Dr. Quinn. Sure, the fictional television doctor could perform surgeries in the Old West using nothing more than a spoon--but one researcher now argues that inhabitants of a small village ...

Önder Bilgi talks about his discovery of a razor-sharp 4000-year-old scalpel and what it was originally used for At an early Bronze Age settlement called Ikiztepe, in the Black Sea province of Samsun ...

An archaeologist has revealed the origin and trading routes of razor-sharp stone tools 4,200 years ago in Syria. An archaeologist from the University of Sheffield has revealed the origin and trading ...