Scientists have found evidence that ancient Altai tribes performed brain surgery 2,300 years ago, according to the Siberian Times.
Archaeologists have examined ancient bones, which supposedly belong to people from the nomadic Pazyryk tribes. The skulls found by scientists have clear signs of trepanation: the bones are reamed or scraped out, but most importantly, there are signs of recovery of patients after the interventions.
According to scientists, the operations were performed to avoid cerebral edema and, possibly, to treat problems with the nervous system.
One of the skulls, belonging to a man between the ages of 40 and 45, bears traces of a head injury. According to the researchers, he received a subdural hematoma, which led to severe headaches, vomiting, and problems with coordination of movements. With the help of trepanation, the ancient doctor removed the hematoma, and the fact that the bones continued to grow means only one thing - the person survived after the operation.
Judging by the second skull, also belonging to a man, the hereditary deformity of the bones of the vault was corrected by trepanation.
Scientists do not exclude that the ancient inhabitants of Altai could be familiar with the ancient Greek treatises on medicine, because it is in them that the technique of performing such operations is described in detail.
Anthropologist Tatyana Chikisheva said in this regard: “It is not yet entirely clear: these medical skills were the result of the connection between the nomads of Siberia and the medical centers of the ancient world. It cannot be ruled out that the ancient Altaians themselves come to the same conclusions as the outstanding ancient doctors in Greece and the Middle East."
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Trepanation as a way of discovering supernatural abilities
The fact of successful trepanation operations in ancient times is considered to be reliably established. It is noted by many peoples around the globe. The inhabitants of the American continents were especially fond of trepanation of the skulls, and most of the trepanations were done in the region of the left temporal lobe.
The famous energy therapist L. P. Grimak believes that in this way the ancients, apparently, tried to suppress the left hemisphere of the brain for the natural activation of the right "extrasensory" hemisphere, which has extremely archaic, so-called "paranormal" abilities - such as clairvoyance, vision of the future, etc.
Predictions - that is, forecasting the future - have played an exceptional role in Native American cultures. Some, such as the Maya, predicted and divined with the help of plant psychedelics in a state of ecstasy (this is also a form of activation of the right hemisphere of the brain), others used hypnosis for these purposes. Zapotecs tried to solve the problem of brain activation in the most radical way, worthy of such famous neurophysiologists as I. P. Pavlov or V. M. Bekhterev "(G. Ershova," Ancient America: Flight in Time and Space ").
In the 60s, the Dutch surgeon Bart Hughes, having performed many similar operations, noticed that after them patients not only recovered from their diseases, but also acquired unique abilities. One of them developed a talent for music, another began to draw beautifully, and the third developed a talent for a businessman.
“After trepanning, my patients began to experience the world differently than other people,” Hughes said at a medical symposium. - I am sure that the state of mind of a person, his creative abilities are associated with pressure in the skull. If you reduce it, you can make people happier."
In those years, colleagues were horrified by Hughes' idea to make trepanation a publicly available operation. The scientist's research was banned, and then he decided to do trepanation … to himself. And he succeeded! After the operation, Hughes not only did not die, as he was predicted, but he developed a talent for playing on the stock exchange. As a result, Hughes became a millionaire and opened several centers where trepanning is done to everyone. The operation was recently legalized, but it can only be done in Hughes clinics.