2,300-year-old tool used for skull surgery unearthed at Celtic settlement in Poland

An oxidized iron tool with one spatulate end and one pointed end rests on a grey speckled table.

Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a rare iron tool that the Celts used to perform cranial surgery 2,300 years ago.

The hand-held artifact was found at Łysa Góra, a Celtic site in the Mazovia region of central-eastern Poland.