A pastor has claimed ISIS are boosting their funds by selling shrunken heads from their decapitated victims on auction websites. The religious preacher claims that the terrorist group are peddling ...

A grim artifact that had been on display for decades in a Georgia university has been authenticated as a human head taken from a slain enemy by an Amazonian warrior almost a century ago — and it is ...

A remarkably well-preserved shrunken head has just been authenticated by DNA analysis, which provides strong evidence that anecdotal accounts of violent head-hunting in South America were true. The ...

An auction house in England has withdrawn human remains, including shrunken heads and ancestral skulls, from sale following an outcry. The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire withdrew more ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Researchers at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., authenticated the head, which was brought to the United States by a professor decades ago, and turned it over to Ecuadorean officials in 2019. By ...