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Roman physician and instruments found in Hungary

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A body with a wooden box found at its feet has been discovered near present-day Jászberény, Hungary (almost 35 miles from Budapest). The wooden box, which is dated to the 1st century AD, contained high-quality copper-alloy and silver medical tools: needles, tweezers, forceps, and scalpels with replaceable blades. Researchers believe the man was a physician in the Roman Empire. There has been no explanation for this man’s distant travel.

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It's unclear why the man traveled to the region; in the first century A.D., it was ruled by Sarmatians of the Iazyges tribe and acted as a buffer state between the Roman territories and the Dacians farther north. 

The region became fully Romanized after the Marcomannic War from A.D. 166 to 188, which took place between Rome and several tribes, including the Germanic Marcomanni and the Sarmatian Iazyges: Rome won the war, and the region became a frontier of the empire until the fifth century, when it fell to the Huns.

 

 

 


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(Jászberény, Hungary)

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