Scalpel and skull discovery in Turkey offers clues to Bronze Age brain surgery
Discovery of a scalpels and skulls at an early Bronze Age settlement called Ikiztepe in Turkey, has indicated that people at the time performed brain surgeries. Onder Bilgi director of excavations at Ikiztepe, has discovered a razor-sharp 4000-year-old scalpel at Ikiztepe in the Black Sea province of Samsun in Turkey.