There, in multiple locations, archaeologists have turned up a number of human skulls, removed from their skeletons, and some with large iron spikes or nails driven right through the forehead, and ...

But no one ever mentioned the skulls. "My ancestors didn't tell me anything about it. Maybe they were frightened," he told 7.30. Mr Tui can sit under a tree and look at the stone monument erected ...

The skulls of Viking-age Swedes, dated between the 10th and 12th centuries, suggest the population of the time was suffering from a wide variety of ailments. Researchers from the University of ...

In the fossil-rich sands of the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most complete skulls ever found from a formidable family of predators that roamed the Earth roughly ...

In an era before antibiotics or modern dental care, such conditions could become serious, even life-threatening. The skulls examined in this study came from one of Sweden’s earliest Christian ...

An analysis of the origins of seven severed skulls with nails through them shows that some people treated this way in Iron Age Spain were local while others came from afar.

For the current study, she and Dr Ashleigh Haruda from Oxford University analyzed 135 skulls from three different breeds: Deutsches Edelschwein, Deutsches Landschwein – and wild boars, who acted as a ...