The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...

A collection of 6,000-year-old skeletons have been discovered in Colombia that do not match any indigenous human population ...

The most ludicrous and enduring myth about Kishore Kumar was that he stored human skulls and bones in his home—presumably to ...

Guatemala’s Cueva de Sangre, translated as “blood cave,” isn’t just a clever name. It’s an apropos description of the cave ...

The museum's director of content has suggested that spaces “where people can come and be with their ancestors” could provide ...

Three human skulls lie in a row on a disk of black cloth – not the bones themselves, but small wooden tokens representing an uncomfortable part of the World Museum’s collection of human remains. This ...

The bi-nation expedition in 1948 was launched amid great fanfare but quickly turned toxic with secrets, scandals and the ...

More than a century ago, the skulls of 19 African Americans who lived and died in New Orleans were collected and sent to ...

A recent study by Dr. Angelina Locker published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology implemented bioarchaeological ...

The craniums of 19 Black Americans, whose heads were severed and sent to Germany for “research” in 1872, are being returned ...