Crystal skulls arrived on the archaeological scene in the 19th century. No one knew who made them. Eventually, they all ...

There are also objects the saint used during life: “second class” relics, such as the gloves worn by the Italian mystic Padre Pio. The veneration of relics of saints was already well established in ...

They found that the skull dates to between 36 and 205 BCE, which corresponds well with the traditionally accepted date of death of Arsinoë IV (41 BCE). The geneticists also found a match between ...

When I moved to El Paso in 2016, there were fewer than 10 migrant deaths in what U.S. immigration officials call the El Paso ...

Zhang noted that the fusion of bones in the skull and neck indicates the animal was fully grown when it died. The cause of death remains unclear. The absence of other skeletal parts suggests the ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, scientists explained how they analyzed the skull from Ephesus using state-of-the-art technology. First, the researchers charted the dimensions ...

An interdisciplinary team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, equipped with state-of-the-art technology ... the skull was once attached to a famous royal who came to an untimely death; Arsinoë ...

The question of a good death, of dying with dignity, however, has a far longer history. Philosophers, poets, divines and those about to die have long pondered and refined ars moriendi: “the art of ...

Unrelenting, unrepenting, the artist who made a name for herself with huge drawings of hairy phallic screws presents a world ...

With a touch of her pen, Katelyn Gehlhausen moved, turned and inverted a striking three-dimensional image of a human skull ...

If you like, picture a bouncing baby New Year in your arms, powder fresh. The images all amount to the same thing: January is a time to (metaphorically) turn the page. But during a week of tragedy and ...