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Byzantine Warrior With Gold-Threaded Jaw Found in Greece
Oct 2, 2021
A Byzantine warrior whose previously-broken jaw was mended with gold thread has been unearthed in Greece; new 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 had been shattered by a blow at least ten years earlier.
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/02...ed-jaw-greece/
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