Observatory: A Beeswax Dental Filling That Lasted 6,500 Years

Monday, September 24, 2012 - 19:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A lump of beeswax, in a jawbone found a hundred years ago in Slovenia and studied only now, appears to be the earliest evidence of a dental filling.

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