A masked man has shaken Karnataka with chilling claims of mass graves in Dharmasthala, a revered temple town. The ...

The ritual use of human skulls may seem macabre to us today, but the archaeological record suggests that skull cults — groups that assigned symbolic importance to skulls — were once quite common.

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 ...

50 skulls found at one sacrificial stone; Five found buried, originally hung on skull rack; Found at temple that dates back over 500 years; MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican archaeologists said Friday ...

The temple complex, now called Gobekli Tepe, is on top of a hill in southeastern Turkey, and was built around 9,000 years ago — that's a good 4,000 years before Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...