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Vráble Ditch Yields 77 Headless Neolithic Burials

Finding careful postmortem skull removal, researchers plan DNA, isotope, excavation analyses to determine whether the practice was ritual or violent.

Iron Age Skull Shows Signs of Deliberate Brain Removal, Study Finds

Neolithic Mass Burial at Vráble Reveals 77 Headless Skeletons

Ancient Skeleton Found Near Guthrie Search Confirmed Not Linked to Her Disappearance

Laos 'Death Jar' With 37 Remains Confirms Multigenerational Burials

Pompeii Unveils First AI Portrait of Vesuvius Victim

Ancient DNA Study Finds Recent Selection Shaped Hundreds of Human Genes

Possible Remains of d’Artagnan Found in Dutch Church

Sealed Chamber in Luxor Yields 22 Painted Coffins Linked to Amun Temple Singers

Pompeii Opens Permanent Exhibition of 22 Victim Casts From the AD 79 Eruption

Study Recasts 2,800-Year-Old Serbian Mass Grave as Targeted Killing of Women and Children

Gold-Laden Elite Tomb Unearthed at Panama’s El Caño Site

1,000-Year-Old Elite Tomb Unearthed at Panama’s El Cano Site

Viking-Age Mass Burial Unearthed Near Cambridge Reveals Brutal Deaths and a Trepanned Giant

Cambridge Students Unearth Possible Early Medieval Execution Pit at Wandlebury

9,500-Year-Old Malawi Find Is Africa’s Earliest Cremation and Oldest Adult Pyre

Malawi Pyre Dating to 9,500 Years Ago Is Africa’s Earliest Intentional Cremation

Viking-Age Grave in Norway Shows Unprecedented Scallop Shell Placement at Woman’s Mouth

Neanderthals at Goyet Targeted Nonlocal Women and Children for Cannibalism, Study Finds

Musée de l’Homme Opens ‘Momies’ Exhibition, Reframing Mummification as Global