Wikimedia Commons/Bms4880 Pinson Mounds Complex Native Americans built the largest group of Middle Woodland period mounds in ...

An ancient temple hidden in Bolivia’s highlands is reshaping how archaeologists understand the Tiwanaku civilization, a ...

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...

DNA samples obtained from two cigars led detectives to two men accused of targeting and stealing military veterans's skulls from a Mount Dora cemetery for a religious ritual, authorities say ...

A human skull and a staff suspected to be used for ritual purposes have been discovered in the premises of Synagogue Church in Enugu State, South-east Nigeria, an official has said.

A team of security operatives, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area in Enugu State, raided an ongoing church building and recovered a human skull in ...

BONE DOME Disturbing alien-like skull belonging to ‘archaic’ human stuns experts who say ‘barbaric’ deformation ritual is to blame ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

The male skulls were uncovered in two archaeological sites that date back to this period of the Iron Age–Ullastret (about 84 miles north of Barcelona) and a settlement called Puig Castellar.

Iron Age Iberians nailed skulls to walls in public. But were the remains those of revered friends—or reviled foes?