Curiously, in each of its hands, the skeleton held a small ceramic whistle molded to look like a human skull. This discovery marked the beginning of a widespread fascination with the so-called ...

A mystery is unfolding in Pitcairn after what appears to be a human skull was found at a home there. The house on Seventh ...

SALEM — Mike Vitka got his first human skull from a dentist’s daughter ... the neck of the individual and sounds like someone screaming. – TANNER PEARSON FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE In explaining ...

This Halloween scare came a week too late. An anthropologist rummaging through a Florida thrift shop Saturday found what is believed to be a human skull, according to authorities. The grim ...

A human skull found in a Goodwill donation box in Arizona is believed to be "historic," and not related to a crime, police say. The skull was placed in the donation box at a Goodwill in Goodyear ...

FOUND THE HUMAN REMAINS. THE SKULL WAS FOUND DURING THE DEMOLITION OF A BUILDING BEHIND ME, WHICH USED TO BE A PAPER SUPPLY COMPANY. IT HAD BEEN ABANDONED AND DAMAGED BY A FIRE THAT WE COVERED ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah In the 1970s, as a middle-school science teacher, I bought a preserved human skull from an educational-supply company. I did so in part for my own and my students ...