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Bronze Age 5-year-old's skull found in Uzbekistan is the oldest known evidence of surgery in Central Asia


A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in Central Asia on record.

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