Skulls
Cambridge students find burial pit, 9th century ‘giant’ who underwent surgery during training dig
The pit is believed to have been from a time of conflict “between the Saxon-run kingdom of Mercia and the kingdom of East Anglia, which was conquered by the Vikings in around 870 [CE]."
Ancient Spanish skull reveals Roman campaign of intimidation, adds to sparse record of ancient war
Study of 50,000-year canine skulls shows dogs diversified millennia before modern breeding
Rare Celtic skull trepanation tool found in Poland
Vienna Cathedral shocked to discover stolen skull in their mail
The skull had been mailed from a guilt-laden former visitor from northern Germany.
Ancient human skull dating to 2,300 BCE discovered on Indiana's Whitewater River bank
“This discovery is a powerful and humbling reminder that people have walked this land for millennia,” said Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson.
Chinese one-million-year-old Yunxian 2 skull challenges Homo sapiens timeline
Re-dated to between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old and reassigned to Homo longi, the specimen could shift the appearance of large-brained humans back at least 500,000 years.
Scientists reconstruct face of 900-year-old woman from churchyard skull
Visitors to Holy Trinity Parish Church are invited to pick a name for the medieval woman from a ten-strong shortlist.
Three new 7.7-million-year-old elephant skulls unearthed in Turkey
“This year we can talk about the year of the elephant. From 2018 until now, we had identified two skulls, but only this year did we find three” described an archeologist.
Ancient human skull discovered in Greece rewrites human evolutionary timeline
Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era.
Skulls for sale: inside the shocking legal void fueling Britain’s black market in human remains
Instagram sellers. Grave robbers. Gothic collectors. And a law that says almost nothing.
Oldest human hybrid? 140,000-year-old skull could rewrite human evolution
Is this ancient child proof that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals mixed far earlier than we thought?
Beheaded by colonizers, buried by descendants: France finally returns skull of Malagasy King Toera
A symbol of brutal colonialism comes home after more than a century.
Mystery at Petralona Cave: 286,000-year-old skull near Thessaloniki upends the human family tree
Buried for hundreds of thousands of years, the Petralona cranium finally reveals its ancient secret.
