Researchers at the Neolithic ritual center of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey have discovered this fragment of a human skull (below), one of three that were carved and altered after death, and possibly ...

Initially, the experts were unsure of what the comb was made of, but after months of examination, they uncovered that it was carved out of the human skull. Before the Bar Hill comb, two other ...

Objects made from human bone may have been used in special ... "It is possible it was carved from the skull of an important member of Iron Age society whose presence was in some way preserved ...