An (undoubtedly human) skull from Peru, which was donated to the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma from a private collection, is now the object of controversy because of a mysterious metal implant.

Metal detectorists in southwest England unearthed the two gold-and-garnet objects from the Anglo-Saxon period in January.

The 2,000 year old skull of a Peruvian warrior was found to have been fused together with metal in one of the world's oldest examples of advanced surgery, according to a museum. The Museum of ...

Roman-era silver jewelry and coins discovered in Scotland The ghoulish skull ring caught the attention of metal detectorist David Balfour, who found it in the Welsh community of Carreghofa.

Last year we posted this elongated skull with metal surgically implanted to help heal a traumatic injury. This skull is now on public display at our museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. We thought ...

"I knew this was something very special and I did a bit of a dance," detectorist Malcom Weale told BBC. Weale found the ring ...

Officials in Wales have designated nine recent archaeological finds—including a hoard of Tudor coins featuring Henry VIII’s portrait and a gold ring inlaid with an enamel skull—as treasure ...

But the Kittery Police Department has assured it is “definitely not” a real human skull, but rather it’s made of metal. Police Sgt. Josh Stewart on Wednesday said no one had reported the ...

An amateur metal detectorist in England has unearthed a macabre piece of history: an 18th-century gold band with an inlaid enamel skull decoration ... been filled with jewelry enamel, which ...