Hunter-gatherers who built and worshiped at one of the oldest known ritual centers in the world carved up human skulls in a style all their own. At Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe site — where human activity ...

An ancient "skull cult" might've existed thousands of years ago in present-day Turkey. Three deeply carved skulls found at the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site suggest that humans disfigured the bones ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An aerial view of Göbekli Tepe, an 11,000-year-old Stone Age site in what is now Turkey. In ...

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Fragments of three carved human skulls have been uncovered at a mysterious ritual site in Turkey. No one knows what rituals were performed at the site, which was constructed 11,000 years ago during ...

More than 9,000 years ago, a mysterious group of hunter-gatherers built what might be described as the world’s first known temple. Located in southern Turkey, this ancient place of ritual worship ...

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Three carved skull fragments uncovered at a Neolithic dig site in Turkey feature modifications not seen before among human remains of the time, researchers say. Thus, these modified skull fragments ...

Deep within a Spanish cave, archaeologists have found the remains of seven ancient people whose bodies appear to have been skinned, carved, and boiled in what may have been an extensive funerary ...

I carved three life-sized human skulls over different time frames: 5 minutes, 5 hours, and 5 days, to see how time affects ...