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Some Viking Women Purposefully Elongated Their Skulls 1,000 Years Ago, New Study Suggests
Researchers in Sweden just uncovered the remains of three 8th to 11th-century Viking women whose skulls were elongated into ...
The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...
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15th-century skull found at royal burial site could belong to Hungary's 'just' king
Archaeologists are exploring the possibility that a skull discovered at a former royal basilica belongs to King Matthias Corvinus.