University of Winchester archaeologists who have been working to identify the remains of King Alfred the Great (848-899) held a press conference a short time a go. They revealed the bones exhumed from a grave at St. Bartholomew’s Church in… Read More ›
On January 10th, the Journal of Archaeological Science published a study, Headhunting and amphitheatre combat in Roman London, England: new evidence from the Walbrook Valley, written by Rebecca Redfern and Heather Bonney. In this article the authors discuss their research… Read More ›
Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned on February 28th, 2013, is only the second pope in history to voluntarily abdicate. The last Pontiff to resign willingly was Celestine V, who was crowned Pope in 1294, and was the first to declare that… Read More ›
Skulls and skeletons have influenced fashion for centuries from clothes, to jewelry, to purses. But fashion has also affected bones by flattening, bending, and even breaking them through skeletal modification. These artificial deformations were often a mark of social status… Read More ›
The Skull Tower (or Ćele-kula in Serbian) is a tower that was built by a conquering Turkish army in the nineteenth century using the skulls of Serb rebels. Ćele-kula, located in Niš, in southern Serbia, stood as a cautionary tale… Read More ›
Last November the grave of a swordsman was found in a field in southern Finland by group of “amateur historians” using a metal detector. Archaeologists recently finished initial examinations on remains, thought to date to the medieval period, and they… Read More ›
In September 2012 construction workers renovating a townhouse in Edinburgh made a gruesome discovery in the garden…human bones in a shallow grave. According to The Scotsman, researchers now think it’s likely these remains may belong to the unfortunate victims of… Read More ›
In June of 1934, two prospectors, Cecil Main and Frank Carr, were using explosives to mine for gold in the San Pedro Mountains of Wyoming. After the dust of one of their blasts cleared, Main and Carr discovered a small… Read More ›
In 2008, a cathedral in Northern Italy was undergoing renovations, when workers discovered more than 300 bones belonging to two skeletons in one of the sealed crypts. The skulls were packed inside a pair of silver-and-gold busts deep in a… Read More ›
The people of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7000-6000 BCE) culture in the Southern Levant had a mortuary practice of removing the skulls of deceased family members and remodeling them with plaster. After the body of a family member was decapitated the… Read More ›
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