MADRID, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Remains found in a tomb in northwestern Spain are likely to belong to a ninth-century bishop believed to have helped create the Camino de Santiago, one of Christianity's ...

A new study of human remains dredged from the Thames River reveals that people frequently deposited corpses there in the Bronze and Iron ages. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

A mysterious group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers who once inhabited the southern Texas coast may have created music in a hauntingly unconventional way—by transforming human bones into instruments.

These ancient tribes were bad to the bone. Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton masks among a repository of ...

Researchers have found cannibalized human remains from at least 11 people in El Mirador cave in northern Spain, suggesting it was the site of a violent Neolithic clash 5,600 years ago. When you ...

New research was made about tobacco's effect on human skeletons, indicating that it leaves permanent marks on bones, even centuries after death. Scientists at Leicester University explored the ...