Archaeologists working in southern Uzbekistan have uncovered evidence that a five-year-old child underwent a form of brain ...

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a rare iron instrument that appears to have been used to cut into human skulls more than 2,000 years ago, offering a startlingly intimate glimpse into ancient ...

Lesions found in ancient skulls suggest that cancer could have been a medical issue long before our time. Ancient Egyptian skulls studied at the Duckworth Laboratory Collection at the University of ...

More than 87 percent of physicians in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country formerly part of Yugoslavia, are female — the highest percentage in the world. Also in the 80th percentile: Zambia and Mongolia, ...