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

Three human skulls lie in a row on a disk of black cloth – not the bones themselves, but small wooden tokens representing an ...

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

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

The most ludicrous and enduring myth about Kishore Kumar was that he stored human skulls and bones in his home—presumably to frighten away unwanted guests. Read on ...

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

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

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

For decades, scientists have used near-infrared light to study the brain in a noninvasive way. This optical technique, known ...

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

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

A recent study by Dr. Angelina Locker published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology implemented bioarchaeological methods to determine if the secondary burial remains found within a ...