THE SKULL: A Tyrolean Folktale, by Jon Klassen Folk tales are meant to be flexible things, open-source stories infinitely moldable to the needs of teller and era.

A skull unearthed in a medieval church in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, may be the remains of legendary King Matthias Corvinus, who ruled for three decades and was known for his support of the ...

The “Dragon Man” skull, which dates to 146,000 years ago and was discovered in 1933 by a laborer in Harbin City, China — when it was under Japanese occupation — was long shrouded in mystery.

A pair of archaeologists working at a dig site in an ancient cemetery in western Iran have discovered the skull of a young girl that shows evidence of cranial modification. In their paper ...