Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn't
When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share ...
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Montreal to remove city hall welcome sign that includes woman wearing hijab
In the image, which is in the style of a pencil sketch, the woman is standing between ... The teenager who is sick with the first-ever human case of avian influenza acquired in Canada is in ...
The Guardian Nigeria19d
Cemetery worker, others arrested with five human skulls
A Cemetery worker and other accomplices have been apprehended with five human skulls in Agege area, a Lagos suburb. The suspects were apprehended on Sunday by the local security operatives at ...
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The huge tower of human skulls unearthed in Mexico City
Tales of a tower of skulls that struck fear into the hearts of Spanish conquistadors have been passed down through the generations in Mexico. Then in 2015 archaeologists discovered skulls buried ...
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An Indiana teen died in 1866. How did her skull end up in an Illinois house's walls?
was renovating his house when he knocked down a wall to reveal what appeared to be a human skull lying between the ... authorities developed a composite sketch depicting what she likely looked ...
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Skull of Indiana teen who died in the 1800s found in wall of home
(WLS/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - The skull of an Indiana teen was found in the wall of a home near Chicago. Officials in Kane County have solved a decades-old cold case involving a human skull ...
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Skull found during home renovations in 1978 identified as woman who died more than 150 years ago
The skull of a teen from the 1800s was found more than 45 years ago during a home renovation project in suburban Chicago – thanks to the advancement of DNA technology, we finally know her name.
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DNA testing confirms that skull found in Illinois home dates back to 1866
The mystery of a human skull found in 1978 in a Batavia, Ill., home has finally been solved after DNA testing confirmed that the skull belonged to an 18-year-old girl from 1866.Oct. 25 ...
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Who were the Flores ‘hobbits’? Here's what we know about this ancient human species
The lore of the discovery goes that while excavating a cave sediment laid down in the Pleistocene epoch, a local field worker found human skull bones ... fossils for drawing out the ecology ...
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Cold case of skull found in Illinois home identified as teen who died in 1866
ILLINOIS, USA — Authorities in Kane County finally solved a cold case dating back 46 years, when a human skull was found during a home renovation project in Batavia in 1978. The Kane County ...