Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Legend of the 13 Crystal Skulls | From Mars to the Maya Scientists at Hewlett-Packard's crystal lab had tested thousands of specimens, but they'd never seen anything like this. The Mitchell-Hedges ...

Learning more about ancient humans is important if we want to understand humanity's origins. That's why it is always so exciting when scientists uncover ancient human skulls hidden in fossil records.

Fakes are an all too real part of the museum world. “There are always artists capable of making and selling things that seem old,” says anthropologist Jane MacLaren Walsh. James Di Loreto, NMNH The ...

PALENQUE, Mexico -- There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power to save the Earth -- a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the ...

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Two skulls from ancient Egypt appear to show marks left by cancerous tumors — and one of the skulls appears to have markings that indicate an attempt at surgery to remove them. We tend to think of ...

We tend to think of cancer as a modern affliction, but it's stalked humanity for millennia. Now, two ancient skulls confirm just how far back our relationship with this disease goes. Science reporter ...

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Two skulls from ancient Egypt appear to show marks left by cancerous tumors -- and one of the skulls appears to have markings that indicate an... Two ancient Egyptian skulls show how long cancer has ...