Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive gravesite — dating back at least 1,300 years — was unearthed in central Mexico, offering a glimpse into the cultural ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...

Tattoos and other forms of body modification aren't just for rebels anymore, and most adults seem to know that. My 47-year-old optometrist has a tattoo on his arm, a very lovely recreation of ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.