An international team of researchers has approximated the face of a woman whose 45,000-year-old remains were discovered more than 70 years ago. The severed skull of the Zlatý kůň woman — the ...

Scientists analyzed the skull of a medieval woman who once lived in central Italy and found evidence that she experienced at least two brain surgeries consistent with the practice of trepanation ...

Here’s how it works. The strange facedown burial of a young woman, who likely had a nail driven into her skull around the time she died in Sardinia more than 2,000 years ago, could be the result ...

Here’s how it works. Thousands of years ago, a woman underwent two surgeries to her head — and survived both procedures, her skull reveals. Scientists in Spain made the discovery after ...