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The Hyrtl Skull Collection isn't just medical history. Scientists continue to study the bones today.
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The Eventful Afterlife of a Crowd of 19th-Century Skulls

Philadelphia’s famed anatomy showplace, the Mütter Museum, gets a facelift.
April White October 18, 2021
Saint-Pol-de-Léon, France

Les Étagères de la Nuit (Shelves of the Night)

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.
Viewed from overhead, the promontory of Dmanisi includes medieval and Bronze Age ruins, a working monastery, and a small but rich fossil site.
skulls

The Carnivore Paradise That Keeps Changing the Story of Human Evolution

New research at Dmanisi continues to challenge what we think we know about our deep past.
Gemma Tarlach April 9, 2021
The top of a Strickland spoon.
skulls

The Macabre Mystery of a British Family's Skull-Topped Spoons

The 17th-century artifacts were likely christening gifts.
Sam O'Brien March 8, 2021
The partial skull found in Marcel Loubens Cave is more than 5,000 years old
skulls

Solved: The Mystery of a Lonely Human Skull in an Italian Cave

Scientists found answers in a single piece of evidence.
Gemma Tarlach March 5, 2021
St. Aloysius Gonzaga Skull
Castiglione delle Stiviere, Italy

St. Aloysius Gonzaga Skull

The skull of this patron saint is kept in a shrine located in his hometown.
Video

In Naples, Praying With Skulls Is an Ancient Tradition

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Displays at the Weaver Dental Museum include a jumble of dentures.
Itinerary

6 Fascinating Medical Marvels in Pennsylvania

50 States of Wonder
Sam O'Brien
Permanently Closed
Berlin, Germany

Wunderkammer Olbricht at me Collectors Room

A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.
Replica of the 12,000-year-old Chimalhuacán Man and the mammoth mural.
Acolman, Mexico

Museum of Tepexpan

A museum built around the site where the most controversial human remains in the country were found.
Interior of the church.
Naples, Italy

Church of Santa Luciella ai Librai

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.
San Michele Arcangelo Hypogeum.
Torre del Greco, Italy

San Michele Arcangelo Hypogeum

The old church, buried by the 1784 Mount Vesuvius eruption, is a remarkably well-preserved place where people now pray for the souls of the dead.
A sketch of the Phrenological Cabinet from a February 1860 edition of the <em>New York Illustrated News</em>.
skulls

How Profit and Prejudice Built a Family's Human Skull Collection

Fowler & Wells created a "Phrenological Cabinet" on the racist belief that skulls held secrets about human nature.
Peter Leman October 2, 2019
Ajijic, Mexico

'El Muro de los Muertos' ('The Wall of the Dead')

The corner walls of a primary school showcase a Mexican version of memento mori.
skulls

For Sale: A Bison's Skull Straight From the Ice Age

The safe way to encounter horns this big.
Isaac Schultz August 2, 2019
The Ambassadors by Holbein the younger.
London, England

'The Ambassadors'

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.
Dig site at Jamestown.
Williamsburg, Virginia

The Archaearium

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.
The rabbit skull relief.
Palenque, Mexico

Rabbit Skull Relief

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.