Friday, May 11, 2012

Early Middle East Drilling

What might appear to some as a bullet hole in a skull from nearly 3,500 years ago in the Sudan, is more likely an example of trepanation, the surgical procedure of drilling a hole, and the subject of the Sceintifc American image of the week.  Such ancient procedures are worth keeping in your head as a tabletop roleplaying setting creator as well.  Read a bit more here!

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