Experts from a US museum believe it could be one of the oldest examples of advanced surgery. The Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma said the skull is reported to have been that of a man who was injured in battle before undergoing surgery to implant a piece of metal in his head to repair a fracture.
Just because he might’ve been still “alive” at the point of “surgery”, doesn’t mean he actually survived the procedure.
Would they have any way to tell other than bone growth?