A team of researcher unearthed what could be the largest collection of pre-Colombian skulls ever found in a once-sacred temple. The finding reveals new ways the pre-Colombian civilization used skulls ...

Archaeologists say that human skulls may have once decorated an ancient temple at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. Described as the world’s oldest temple, Göbekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey dates back ...

Archaeologists have discovered what seem to be the remains of a "skull cult" in an ancient ritual site in southeast Turkey. More than 9,000 years ago — before the existence of the hanging gardens of ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists have found the main trophy rack of sacrificed human skulls at Mexico City's Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, scientists said Thursday. Racks known as "tzompantli" were ...

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 ...

Researchers poking around at one of the oldest known sites of human civilization — and some say rituals — have discovered what they are referring to as evidence of an ancient "skull cult." Hundreds of ...

What did our ancestors believe? We can never know for certain, but scientists have just published evidence from what is possibly the world's oldest temple. That evidence focuses on what ...

MEXICO CITY -- Archaeologists have found the main trophy rack of sacrificed human skulls at Mexico City's Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, scientists said Thursday. Racks known as "tzompantli" were where ...

Archaeologists have found the main trophy rack of sacrificed human skulls at Mexico City's Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, scientists said Thursday. Racks known as "tzompantli" were where the Aztecs ...