Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

His first outing since his election was to a sanctuary dedicated to the Madonna and is of particular significance to his ...

Cities from London to Moscow are holding events this week as the world observes Thursday’s 80th anniversary of Victory in ...

A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ago. The lifelike image by forensic artist Hew Morrison used the skull of a ...

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McGill University researchers, in collaboration with Mexican scientists, have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the ...

“And nobody touched it for 6,000 years.” The team still needs to analyze the remainder of the weapons, and plans to study the human waste to understand both diet and DNA. “It’s kind of ...

Academics at the University of Oxford drank from a cup made from a human skull for decades ... who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on African Reparations. Hicks aims to demonstrate ...

At one of the world’s most elite universities, professors once toasted to empire using a human skull ... His book also reveals how skulls of African commanders were collected from battlefields ...

Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull – potentially belonging to an enslaved Caribbean woman – at formal dinners until as recently as 2015, a new book has alleged.

including 20 pieces of human skull, engraved animal bones, and stone ax blades. A Roman Helmet May Point to a Mysterious Ritual Usage of an antler from a red deer wasn’t common in Sweden ...

Oxford dons drank wine from a chalice made from a human skull until as recently as 2015, it has emerged. Academics at Worcester College used to drink from the chalice, which was fashioned from a ...