We may never know why the skull of a Stone Age man ended up on a stake in a mysterious underwater grave 8,000 years ago, but thanks to a new facial reconstruction, we can see what he probably ...

Remains from “skull cult” discovered at world’s oldest stone monuments At Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, a 11,500-year-old monument was decorated with human skulls.

This unknown type of skull modification, the scientists say, reveal a new, previously undocumented variation of skull cult. One of the scientists from the German Archaeological Institute, Lee Clare, ...

The skull was found in the wall of the Coeymans Stone House, part of which was built in 1675. The former owner of the house says a mason he hired in 1971 found the skull in the foundation.

A Stone Age skull found in a Spanish cave bears the marks of a failed brain surgery and postmortem decapitation. The skull, which may have belonged to an adult woman, dates back to approximately ...

A Stone Age skull with what may be bits of brain clinging to it has been unearthed at an ancient hunter-gatherer site in Norway. IE 11 is not supported.

Archaeologists discovered the man's skull, as well as the remains of at least 10 other Stone Age adults and an infant, in 2012 at the bottom of what used to be a small lake in what is now Motala ...

Then there are the skulls. Skull fragments make up a hugely disproportionate portion of the bones found at Gobekli Tepe — about two-thirds.