Skeletons

Preparatory work for a high-speed rail project in Britain has resulted in some interesting archaeological…

Road crews in Poland stumbled upon a lost 16th-century cemetery, in which the vast majority of graves belong to…

Three skeletons belonging to African individuals have been uncovered at a mass grave in Mexico City. They represent…

Archaeologists in central China have unearthed a decapitated skeleton still resting in its final kneeling position.…

Lots of people have two arms. Far fewer can say they have one on a shelf by their sink. A 37-year-old Canadian man r…

Archaeologists in Ecuador have uncovered evidence of a previously undocumented funeral ritual, in which the heads of…

A new analysis of the Lovers of Modena—a pair of 1,600-year-old skeletons found buried with their hands clasped…

Thanks to modern paleontology techniques, finding dinosaur fossils isn’t as difficult or random as it once was.…

Archaeologists are trying to figure out why so many bodies at a 1,700-year-old site in Suffolk, England, were buried…

Archaeologists dug up a lot of cool stuff in 2018, but they dug up a lot of weird, disgusting, and disturbing stuff…

Archaeologists in London, England have uncovered a dramatic 500-year-old male skeleton lying face-down in the mud of…

When Marshall Cordell started buying human bones in the late 1970s, he says a full skeleton from India cost…

Unbeknownst to a Greek farmer, a 3,400-year-old tomb containing two coffins and dozens of artifacts dating back to…

Back in July, Egyptian archaeologists dared to open a strange granite sarcophagus, finding three skeletons soaking…

Earlier this year, scientists from Stanford University concluded that a strange skeleton known as the Atacama Mummy…

Back in 2003, a strange skeleton was discovered in a deserted Chilean town in the Atacama Desert. Featuring an…

This may look like a photograph, but the highly realistic face staring back at you belongs to a man who died over…

For more than a century, the taxidermy diorama “Arab Courier Attacked by Lions” has stood in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie…

At an auction held earlier today in the United Kingdom, a 95-percent-complete skeleton of an extinct dodo bird that…

From a strictly mineral standpoint, life on Earth is pretty ridiculous. Some carbon is organized, moves around a…