Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Skull modification is a rarer phenomenon in Viking Age Gotland, with only three known cases, all of which are female. These women, buried in cemeteries at Ire and Havor, had artificially elongated ...

An elongated skull was a status symbol among the ruling classes and represented majesty, beauty, power, and higher intelligence However, the custom began to die out in the 1950s due to Westernisation.

The skull, which was elongated and shaped like a cone due to cranial bandaging, had suffered a major trauma to the head—the cause is still unclear. Archaeologists Found a 6,200-Year-Old Skull ...

Viking women intentionally deformed their skulls 1,000 years ago, according to a new study. The researchers found the elongated skulls of three women from an island in the Baltic Sea.

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

The Hirota people, who occupied a Japanese island for around 400 years, ... whose exceptionally elongated skulls have been misconstrued by conspiracy theorists as evidence of aliens, ...

The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where people use wrapped fabric to permanently reshape the skull in infancy ...

Modified skulls from medieval sites in Germany and Croatia show signs of deformation, and an elongated skull from China that’s 12,000 years old suggests that such modifications date to Neolithic ...

When people hear about Viking body modification, they probably think of Viking tattoos, ... The three 11th century women with elongated skulls offer a more puzzling conundrum.

During the fifth century A.D., people in central Europe practiced skull binding, ... Hungary, first excavated in 1961, held the largest collection of elongated skulls in the region.