If you look past the rust, an ancient Roman speculum is instantly recognizable as an instrument a gynecologist might put inside you today. There are two curved metal bills, a screw to hold them apart, ...

Hundreds of Roman-era medical instruments now being examined by scientists may come from one of the earliest known examples of a group medical practice, or at least a place where health care workers ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a Roman hospital converted into a Byzantine church in Kaunos, revealing a millennium of ...

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