Skulls
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
11-year-old boy uncovers 50,000-year-old skull on river walk
St. Thomas More's skull may be exhumed from Canterbury church after nearly 500 years
'Dragon Man' skull identified as Denisovan through DNA analysis
Thanks to the well-preserved Harbin skull, we finally know what Denisovans looked like.
Mass grave from Greek Civil War discovered in Thessaloniki
City officials are taking steps to conduct DNA testing on the remains and are inviting families of the missing to provide their genetic material.
Oxford academics used a human skull cup at official dinners until 2015
Professor believes the skull belonged to an enslaved woman from the Caribbean.
Hungary's King Matthias Corvinus found? Researchers run DNA tests on mystery skull
Renowned for his contributions to Hungary, Matthias Corvinus reformed the judicial system and is best known for having one of the first permanent armies in Europe.
Decapitated male skulls in Iberia are likely ‘war trophies’ used for intimidation, study finds
At Puig Castellar, isotope analysis revealed that three of the four individuals differed from the local strontium reference, suggesting they were probably not from the local community.
Skull once believed to belong to Cleopatra's sister identified as male
By the 1990s, researchers proposed that the unusual burial might have belonged to Cleopatra’s half-sister, who some believed was executed in Ephesus in 41 BCE at the demand of Mark Antony.
Skull with 'execution-style wounds' sheds light on colonial Indonesia - study
Interpreting the pattern of trauma within the context of the colonial period in Papua, this female individual may have been murdered, possibly as a slave taken during tribal warfare.
Fragments of Beethoven’s skull returned to Austrian university
In 1863, Kaufmann’s great uncle, Franz Romeo Seligmann, had been a Viennese physician, medical historian and anthropologist who was among those involved in the 863 reburial of Beethoven's body.
Excessive gaming dented this man's skull
A gamer was horrified after he shaved his head during a live broadcast and discovered that a dent had formed in his skull - exactly in the area where the headset arch is located.
Scientists reconstruct 35,000 year old face - study
The skeleton, per the scientific report, was discovered in 1980 in the Nile Valley in Egypt.
Skull found in Turkey with neat hole may have been the work of mystics
Trepanation, a procedure which involves drilling a hole into the patient's skull, is one of the oldest known surgical procedures in human history.