29/07/2025
That’s not science fiction—it’s 6000 BC neurosurgery.
Long before hospitals, in ancient Peru, healers performed a medical procedure called trepanation—cutting or scraping a hole into the human skull, often with sharpened obsidian or flint.
Why?
Some say it was to treat head injuries or seizures. Others believe it was to release spirits or pressure in the brain.
But here’s the real twist: they weren’t bad at it.
Thousands of skulls have been found with clean, even cuts—and signs of bone regrowth, meaning the patient survived.
In some burial sites, trepanned skulls outnumber untouched ones—suggesting it was almost common.
Imagine surviving brain surgery… during the Stone Age.
Today, we use scalpels and sterile rooms.
Back then, they used rocks and raw nerve.
And somehow—it worked.
