It’s an apropos description of the cave former purpose, as a depository of fragments of human remains sacrificed by the Maya ...

However, a pair of fossilized skull fragments recently found off the Javanese coast are helping experts recontextualize the ...

Some human remains were also arranged in a nonanatomic way, pointing to a ritualistic nature to their collection. On the ...

Deep in an underground cave in Guatemala, archaeologists stumbled upon hundreds of fragmented human bones showing signs of ...

Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick gray smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as spiritually significant as it is gruesome. The Lang Pacha ceremony is observed by ...

In these dusty frames stood a lone, dark rock — oddly shaped, deeply pitted, and unmistakably resembling a human skull when viewed from certain angles. NASA's team affectionately (and a bit ...

Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as spiritually significant as it is gruesome. The Lang Pacha ceremony is observed ...

Last week, Natalie received a human skull, autographed by her lieutenant and 13 friends, and inscribed: "This is a good Jap — a dead one picked up on the New Guinea beach." Natalie, surprised ...

This instance is the third time in a month that human remains have been found in northern Utah. On March 25, a fisherman found a skull and other human bones near a golf course in West Valley City.

Academics at the University of Oxford drank from a cup made from a human skull for decades, with members of Worcester College using it at official dinners until 2015. The macabre artifact ...