9,500 years ago.

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She survived brain surgery 9,500 years ago.

 A skull of a young woman who underwent brain surgery was found in Turkey's Aşıklı Höyük during the excavations conducted in 1989.  What was discovered left the entire medical and archaeological world stunned.

During the excavations of Aşıklı Höyük, the skull of a 25-year-old woman was found, and a surgical procedure that can be called "an operation" was performed on her skull.  Investigations at Hacettepe University confirmed that the skull was purposely drilled with utmost care, using obsidian drills.

The skull was found at Aşıklı Höyük, a settlement mound in the Cappadocia region near Aksaray, Turkey, a site now recognized as the first known village in all of Central Anatolia.

Aksaray Museum Director Yusuf Altın confirmed there were two holes in the skull, believed to be the remnants of history's first brain surgery.  After the hole was drilled, the cells in the skull regenerated, showing that the woman lived after the procedure for some time.  She survived the operation for approximately ten days, according to scientists. The baby and the woman whose skull it belonged to were buried together. Some scholars argue the procedure was used to allow spirits into or out of the body, or as part of another ritual such as an initiation, while others believe it was a genuine medical response to illness or injury.

Experts in Turkey and Germany are now using 3D modelling techniques to develop a wax model of what the skull and the woman's face looked like 9,500 years ago.

 One woman.  One hole drilled into her skull.  Nearly 10,000 years ago.  And she survived.


   Writer: Binod Kumar Simkhada
 binodkumarsimkhada315@gmail.com

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