A sparkling, life-size skull on offer at Bonhams Los Angeles this month could be the largest carving ever made from a meteorite. The handiwork of artist Lee Downey, the 46.5-pound skull ...

It is not, Walsh said. The skulls were carved from blocks of quartz — sometimes called rock crystal — and show the marks of modern carving tools. That means they were not made before the 19th ...

The artefact, a relic from the Maya civilisation, features a relief carving of a skull in profile. Historians posit that the object comprised one block in a wall of similar carvings meant to evoke ...

A lack of healed bone on the edges of incisions suggests skull carving occurred shortly after death. A human skull piece found at Turkey’s ancient Göbekli Tepe site has a carved groove ...