In todays deep dive into the world of Medieval Medical Care Historian Matt Lewis and Kevin Goodman - the time travelling ...

As well as the cross-shaped incision, the skull shows clear signs of a second surgery, when the bone behind the woman's forehead was scraped thin after the skin there was peeled back.

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 ...

Medieval surgery stuns the experts Mark Prigg | Evening Standard Science Correspondent April 12, 2012 COMMENTS ...

The edges of the wound are smooth and have no fragments, suggesting the victim went through the equivalent of medieval brain surgery. Anthropologist Mauro Rubini said 'Probably the margins were ...

Cranial surgery was carried out in Britain more than 1,000 years ago - according to scientists who have examined bones found in North Yorkshire. The skull, found by English Heritage at the ...