Some 5,300 years ago, humans in what is now northern Spain cut into an elderly woman's skull, likely in an effort to relieve her ear pain. Now, reports Judith Sudilovsky for the Jerusalem Post, archaeologists say the woman's skull represents the.
In 2018, a 5,300-year-old skull with drilled holes was found in a Spanish tomb, which researchers have now proven to be the world’s first ever ear surgery!
The skull was found in a megalithic tomb known as the Dolmen of El Pendón in Burgos, Spain and likely belonged to a prehistoric woman aged between 35 and 50 years old - an advanced age for the time.