• 2,500 years ago, Russian woman received astonishing jaw surgery: Study Researchers used X-ray computed tomography (CT) to study the skull of the woman from the Pazyryk burial. • Russian archaeologists revisited a mummified woman originally found in 1994 to discover that she received a first-of-its-kind jaw surgery, illuminating how sophisticated the Iron Age Pazyryk culture was in the field of surgery, as their extreme living conditions made it necessary. • Over 2,500 years ago, researchers believe that a 25- to 30-year-old woman most likely fell off a horse, as the Pazyryk were a nomadic culture, and suffered terrible injury to her jaw, as the CT scans revealed. • However, they showed much more, the signs of elastic used to stabilize the jaw, according to a translated statement by Novosibirsk State University. • Andrey Letyagin, a radiologist at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “It is possible that we have discovered evidence of such a surgical procedure for the first time.” Penetrating not only the injury but also the complex surgical intervention, researchers revealed a fascinating slice of surgical history, as the Pazyryk (and Egyptians) demonstrated superb skill, shaped by adversity. • An unremarkable woman with a remarkable injury Back in 1994, archaeologists at the Russian Academy of Sciences uncovered a woman who, it would turn out, possessed a groundbreaking jaw.
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- 2,500 years ago, Russian woman received astonishing jaw surgery: Study Researchers used X-ray computed tomography (CT) to study the skull of the woman from the Pazyryk burial. Russian archaeologists revisited a mummified woman originally found in 1994 to discover that she received a first-of-its-kind jaw surgery, illuminating how sophisticated the Iron Age Pazyryk culture was in the field of surgery, as their extreme living conditions made it necessary. Over 2,500 years ago, researchers believe that a 25- to 30-year-old woman most likely fell off a horse, as the Pazyryk were a nomadic culture,
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