As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab ...

There’s a brisk underground trade in human remains. The justices pondered a medical research institution’s responsibility for stopping it.

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The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time ...

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The bones and skulls were found strewn among animal remains, a burial that was meant to humiliate a conquered rival even after defeat ...

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Egyptian artifacts, dinosaur fossils and taxidermy mounts headline eccentric items at the SkullStore Oddity Shop and ...

The investigation was a global endeavor that led to a Post series exposing the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.” ...