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 ...

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 ...

In Turkey, Carved Skulls Provide the First Evidence of a Neolithic "Skull Cult": Three carved skull fragments uncovered at a Neolithic dig site in Turkey feature modifications not seen before among ...

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 ...

I carved three life-sized human skulls over different time frames: 5 minutes, 5 hours, and 5 days, to see how time affects artistry. Each skull is hand-carved from Carob burl and epoxy resin, ...

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 ...

The skull is a universal symbol of mortality, appearing in artworks by everyone from Hans Holbein the Younger and Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. But in Lee Downey’s “Yorick,” ...

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 ...