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 ...

Researchers have developed a method of sourcing obsidian artifacts that takes only 10 seconds -- dozens of times faster than the current methods -- with a handheld instrument that can be used at ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a method of sourcing obsidian artefacts that takes only 10 seconds – dozens of times faster than the current methods – with a handheld ...