April 30, 2026 43 min
Overview
Off the coast of Italy, a Roman shipwreck preserves the oldest known medical tablets ever studied. In the Levant, poppy-shaped vessels reveal early use of opium, while deep in the caves of Borneo, a 31,000-year-old skeleton with a healed amputation challenges long-held beliefs about prehistoric surgery and medical care.
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