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title: "Oldest surgery in the world"  
description: "A brief explanation about the evidences of earlier surgeries and history"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-12  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2860/oldest-surgery-in-the-world  
category: "science and history"  
tags: ["science", "history", "surgery", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Oldest surgery in the world

![Oldest surgery in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a662348a-672c-46dc-ac44-fc1dfd0375ac/images/fae51d3f-b185-48a9-b280-d76b0fe5f945.jpeg) ![Oldest surgery in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a662348a-672c-46dc-ac44-fc1dfd0375ac/images/45950d5a-501d-4e78-859d-20886133b466.jpeg) The earliest known operation in the world was an amputation performed on a young adult 31,000 years ago in Borneo, Indonesia. ![Oldest surgery in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a662348a-672c-46dc-ac44-fc1dfd0375ac/images/a3781cb6-de2e-40c6-b52b-2bd71e1098f1.jpeg) It was recovered in Liang Tebo cave, survived surgery, and lived for 6–9 years after amputation for a seriously infected or wounded left leg. ![Oldest surgery in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a662348a-672c-46dc-ac44-fc1dfd0375ac/images/4ae0eaa0-57cf-4988-ba2e-2a06021b5323.jpeg) More evidences like a 7,000-year-old French skeleton exhibits traces of a surgical amputation of the left forearm. ![Oldest surgery in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a662348a-672c-46dc-ac44-fc1dfd0375ac/images/d374ceb9-c5e6-487d-98fb-7f2f780847d6.jpeg) A 3,300-year-old Indus Valley Civilisation skeleton exhibits traces of trepanation, a treatment that involves drilling a hole in the skull. ![Oldest surgery in the world](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a662348a-672c-46dc-ac44-fc1dfd0375ac/images/af70f4c7-8145-4abf-a515-20e4ace3e363.jpeg) The Sushruta Samhita, a 600 BC Indian medical treatise, describes over 1,100 surgical operations such as cataract surgery and caesarean section.

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