Archaeologists working on a site in Mexico found ancient skulls and bones stacked on top of each other, offering a glimpse into the practices of how some funerals might have been carried out in ...

On the ground in one part of the cave, excavators found a series of four stacked skull caps. The combination of injuries discovered on the bones; the high density of human remains in the cave ...

A similar mark was found on a child’s hip bone. Even the way the bones were placed within the cave, such as four stacked skull caps in one spot, sparked questions. The experts conclude that the ...

On the ground in one part of the cave, excavators found a series of four stacked skull caps. The combination of injuries discovered on the bones; the high density of human remains in the cave ...

On the ground in one part of the cave, excavators found a series of four stacked skull caps. The combination of injuries discovered on the bones; the high density of human remains in the cave ...

Only a few steps away, in the subterranean charnel house, more than a thousand skulls stand neatly stacked. 610 of these have been delicately hand painted, the largest intact collection of painted ...

for a hair-raising total of 603 skulls, stacked atop one another and mortared together. The tower is believed to be one of seven similar structure that once stood in the Aztec capital city of ...

Lots of them. Specifically, 7,000 skulls stacked floor to ceiling, including those of sea lions, cheetahs, jaguars, horses, zebras and other animals. Bandar has spent 60 years building this ...

“No proper catacombs,” Dylan Thuras clarifies. “A proper catacomb is lined with carefully-stacked skulls and bones.” Thuras is an enthusiast of unusual places. He’s the co-founder of the ...

Later, on that same trip, I was deep under the streets of Paris, all alone, surrounded by literally millions of human bones -- tibiae, fibulae, pelvises and skulls -- stacked along miles of catacombs.

Neatly stacked skulls and robed monk skeletons in the Capuchin Crypt of Rome. Rick Steves, Rick Steves Europe Deep under the streets of Paris, I was all alone…surrounded by literally millions ...