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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Byzantine Warrior With Gold-Threaded Jaw Found in Greece

A Byzantine warrior whose previously-broken jaw was mended with gold thread has been unearthed in Greece; recent scholarship has revealed that he had been operated on using a technique propounded by the Greek physician Hippocrates 1,800 years earlier. Killed on the battlefield in a desperate fight against the Ottomans in the fourteenth century, his jaw […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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