From shrunken heads and mummified mermaids to occultist ... his habit for collecting these curiosities to an “infectious disease” and created the museum as an artwork in its own right.

A shrunken head peeks from a bottom shelf in storage ... Another storage hazard: "bronze disease," a condition in which a coin or other bronze piece produces acid internally and begins to deteriorate.

Smiling she passes over her phone showing a snap of her cheeky-faced little boy in a bright yellow T-shirt which says ‘Small is beautiful’. Sarah’s treasured photo is a world away from the ...

A remarkably well-preserved shrunken head has just been authenticated by DNA analysis, which provides strong evidence that anecdotal accounts of violent head-hunting in South America were true.

Researchers from Western University have verified the authenticity of a South American tsantsa (shrunken head) as human remains, an important step in the global effort toward decolonization and ...

Researchers have used computer scans to successfully authenticate a real shrunken human head that has been stored at a museum. The researchers, from institutions in Canada and Ecuador, say the ...