Today, Vitka says, the skull serves as “the jewel” of a collection that has grown to include an additional human skull, purchased for $250 from an oddities shop in New York City, as well as a ...

A 2,000-year-old hair comb discovered in a museum's collection was carved from a human skull. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

In other cases, the seller’s claim that a skeleton came from a medical collection ... see when a skull pops up on one of our feeds. These Were People Once: The Online Trade in Human Remains ...

Since then, statutes have oscillated between permitting this commerce in human remains ... to keep the skull at the lab in the hope that techniques of DNA collection or analysis will improve.

A team of researchers examined two human skulls from the University of Cambridge's Duckworth Collection in the UK. The male skull (pictured here) dates back to between 2687 and 2345 BC.

The chalice joined Pitt Rivers’s private collection and was eventually inherited ... swilling drink out of a human skull that may have belonged to an enslaved person and has been so little ...

His collection, he said, consists of “human skulls, a mortician’s make-up kit (previously used of course) and a customer’s toe.” Videos and photos posted to the studio’s Facebook page ...

Stock image of a human skull at an archaeological site ... with their deposition marking the final disposal of a ritual collection," the authors reveal. The cache of skulls was originally ...

Although human bones are often found in archaeological excavations of burial areas, this particular collection of skulls is unique because it was found inside a building, Jess Thompson ...

The cup was part of the second collection of Augustus Pitt Rivers ... drinking deeply of alcohol from a human skull that may have belonged to a person who was enslaved." "A skull so devalued ...

Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull – potentially belonging ... on display with the college’s silver collection and used as tableware. The college does not ...