Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a rare iron instrument that appears to have been used to cut into human skulls more than 2,000 years ago, offering a startlingly intimate glimpse into ancient ...

More than 87 percent of physicians in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country formerly part of Yugoslavia, are female — the highest percentage in the world. Also in the 80th percentile: Zambia and Mongolia, ...

Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today. By Jordan Pearson Fluctuating disease rates, ...

Lesions found in ancient skulls suggest that cancer could have been a medical issue long before our time. Ancient Egyptian skulls studied at the Duckworth Laboratory Collection at the University of ...

Through modern science, the grim discovery of a Medieval woman's remains is able to tell the tale of a "coffin birth" and ancient brain surgery. Despite the macabre nature of the grim discovery of a ...