Skull | A Blog About History

131-year-old murder mystery solved in David Attenborough’s garden

October 25th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

The skull of Julia Martha Thomas, murdered by her maid in 1879, has been found in Sir David Attenborough’s backyard

April 13th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

A shrunken mummified brain may be contained within the fossilized skull of the newly discovered Australopithecus sediba. Soft parts of

February 10th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

The discovery of a 2.5 million-year-old fossil of a bull’s skull may show taht beef has been on the dinner

February 5th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

A 2,000-year-old tomb found in eastern Mongolia contains the remains of a man of multi-ethnic heritage. Dead men can indeed

January 21st, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

A nail-pierced skull belonged to the medieval pirate Klaus Störtebeker has been stolen from a museum in Hamburg, Germany. [Thx

December 7th, 2009 | by Sevaan Franks

A skull fragment which may have belonged to a pioneer on the Oregon trail has been found in Wyoming. It’s

November 16th, 2009 | by Sevaan Franks

A farmer in Australia claims to have the outlaw Ned Kelly’s skull. Farmer Tom Baxter, from Western Australia’s remote northern

October 27th, 2009 | by Sevaan Franks

The giant 2.4m long skull of a pliosaur has been found along the UK’s Jurassic Coast. Palaeontologist Richard Forrest told