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Learn about how ancient societies used autopsies and how they evolved into the procedure they are today.

Autopsies Have A Long and Complicated History

Examples of cranial trauma. Top) perimortem injury to the left posterior of the frontal bone (a), cutmarks can also be seen on the frontal bone (b) and patinated bevel of the internal cranial surface is apparent around the injury (c); middle) cranium with a perforating injury to mid-frontal bone (d), a closer view shows radiating fracture lines (e) and the internal view shows patinated bevel (f ); bottom) adult cranium (g), close inspection shows cutmarks running along the mid-frontal (h) and a perimortem blunt force fracture to the conjoining right frontal bone fragment (i) Images by Schulting et al. Antiquity, December 2024. (Credit: Schulting et al. Antiquity, December 2024.)

Cranial trauma - evidence.

Find out more about this historic find and how it illuminates a darker side of early human history. 

Bronze Age Bones Indicate Violent Death and Possible Cannibalism

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Superflare

Learn how violent solar storms shower Earth with radioactive atoms.

Violent Solar Storms Can Rage in the Universe About Every 100 Years 

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Foucault's Pendulum

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