Dig uncovers ancient roots of dentistry Proving prehistoric man’s ingenuity and ability to withstand and inflict excruciating pain, researchers have found that dental drilling dates back 9,000 ...

The remains of a talented healer and 'priest and magician' who was thought to have treated pharaohs have been found in Egypt, ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the 'incredible' discovery of the tomb, located in the ancient ...

Humans began drilling teeth to remove decay at least 9,000 years ago, more than 4,000 years earlier than previously believed, according to new evidence from an ancient graveyard at Mehrgarh in ...

Ancient proteins from a 20-million-year-old rhino tooth are transforming our understanding of evolution. Researchers have ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

An ancient human’s teeth show scratch marks from where holes were painfully drilled and stuffed with tar to fill a cavity. ... Here’s How Painfully An Ice Age Dentist Filled Ancient Cavities.

In a nutshell CT scans of 15 Viking-age skulls revealed widespread dental infections, sinusitis, ear diseases, and joint ...

WASHINGTON - Primitive dentists drilled nearly perfect holes into live but undoubtedly unhappy patients between 7000 B.C. and 5500 B.C., an article in today's journal Nature reports. Scientists ...

A 6,500-year-old human mandible with trace remains of a beeswax filling is possible evidence of ancient dentistry, according to a study published in PLOS One (September 19, 2012). While it is unclear ...

A dentist was visiting his parents’ newly renovated home in Europe when he noticed something odd: One of the floor tiles in a corridor leading to a terrace held what looked like a human mandible ...