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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 skulls come from the collections of Augustus ... questions of how to handle and potentially return the human remains in its collection, guided by the wishes of the communities they came ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...