Evidence of a successful amputation performed 6,900 years ago has been found in the tomb of a high-status man in France. “I don’t think you could say that those who carried out the operation were doctors in the modern sense that they did only that, but they obviously had medical knowledge,” said archaeologist Cecile Buquet-Marcon.   […]

 In Laos, a team of scientists uncovered 2,000-year-old human bones, some of which had been placed in a burial pot, as part of the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project. “Last week, we unexpectedly found two skulls and a fragment of a third, a baby, along with some body bones,” said Joyce White, associate curator at the […]