An amateur metal detectorist in England has unearthed a macabre piece of history: an 18th-century gold band with an inlaid ...

Academics at the University of Oxford drank from a cup made from a human skull for decades ... whose name is engraved on its silver rim. Professor Dan Hicks, curator of world archaeology at ...

"It is possible it was carved from the skull of an important member of Iron Age society, whose presence was in some way preserved and commemorated through their bones." Human skull (illustrative).

A “skull-cup” made from the cranium of a human skull that separated from the lower part of the skull by breaking the bone removing the flesh was included in the findings. CREDITS: photographs ...

Three skulls were carefully shaped to create cups or bowls ... It is the oldest example of an engraved human bone now known.' The human arm bone with zig-zag markings that were analysed by Museum ...

Centuries ago, Aztec spiritual beliefs and ceremonies placed major significance on the human skull. They carved ornate skulls into stone and depicted their gods wearing human skulls as jewelry. When ...

According to historians, the human skull was revered by many living in the British Isles during the Iron Age. Both carved stone heads and skulls served as talismans, as evidenced in ritual ...

Cranial deformation in Mayan people is particularly well documented, with carved figurines ... READ MORE: 300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before In all three ...

Researchers at the Neolithic ritual center of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey have discovered this fragment of a human skull (below), one of three that were carved and altered after death, and possibly ...

One Instagram seller posted a picture of a human skull with the words “kill me” carved into the side of it. The skull also had coffin nails in it and had been turned into a lamp. The user ...