Skulls
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
Oldest human hybrid? 140,000-year-old skull could rewrite human evolution
Beheaded by colonizers, buried by descendants: France finally returns skull of Malagasy King Toera
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.
11-year-old boy uncovers 50,000-year-old skull on river walk
What Marcel thought was just a bone turned out to be a priceless Pleistocene relic - and scientists are thrilled.
St. Thomas More's skull may be exhumed from Canterbury church after nearly 500 years
Sue Palmer stated, "It is unusual to have any relics in an Anglican church, especially those of a Catholic saint, and the PCC views this as an opportunity for ecumenical outreach and cooperation."
'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.
