The ancient bone comb, “dating from the Iron Age (750 BC – 43 AD), was found at Bar Hill, four miles (6.4km) northwest of Cambridge,” said the BBC. The comb was among 280,000 items collected ...

An ancient bone comb made from a human skull was discovered in England, archaeologists said. Photo from the Museum of London Archaeology Archaeologists recently unearthed an ancient artifact in ...

Now, after months of research, a team at the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) has discovered that the comb wasn’t just fashioned from any bone, but part of a human skull.

Just as humans lose bone mass during long periods of bed rest, similar changes may occur in the bones of captive hero shrews, which may offer clues into the how and why of wild shrews’ spines.

Deciphering an extreme morphology: bone microarchitecture of the hero shrew backbone (Soricidae: Scutisorex). Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Published online April 28, 2020. doi: 10.1098/rspb ...

Italian Police Arrest ‘Clumsy’ Tomb Raiders Who Allegedly Posted Stolen Etruscan Artifacts on Facebook The items include artistic urns, a bone comb and an ancient sarcophagus with a full ...

These bone comb tattooing instruments are not the earliest evidence of tattoos in the world. The earliest evidence of tattooing is on mummified remains approximately 5,300 years old.