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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Fragments of three carved human skulls have been uncovered at a mysterious ritual site in ...

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 ...

Other small marks show the skulls were defleshed before carving. The research was published Wednesday in Science Advances. Artwork recovered at the site also shows an interest in decapitated ...