GREECE: Archeological study shows unearthed 650 year old Byzantine warrior had gold-threaded jaw

[Judi Lynn]

3 HOURS AGO

by KOSTA PAPADOPOULOS

A Byzantine warrior unearthed in Greece, dating nearly 650 years, who was decapitated following the Ottoman’s capture of his fort during the 14th century, had a jaw threaded with gold, a new study finds, reports Live Science magazine.

The study, led by Anagnostis Agelarakis, an anthropology professor in the Department of History at Adelphi University in New York said the warrior’s lower jaw revealed that it had been badly fractured in a previous incident, but that a talented physician had used a wire — likely gold crafted — to tie his jaw back together until it healed.

According to the report, the medical professional who operated on his jaw seems to have been following the advice of the fifth-century B.C. Greek physician Hippocrates, who wrote a treatise covering jaw injuries about 1,800 years before the warrior was wounded.

“The jaw was shattered into two pieces,” said Agelarakis.

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