The head, known as a tsantsa, was authenticated to be sent back to the Ecuador government Digital News Writer, PEOPLE A shrunken head that was used in the 1979 dark comedy Wise Bloods was recently ...

Researchers at a Georgia University have authenticated a "shrunken head" that has been on display for decades. The tsantsa, as it's known in Amazonian languages, was also featured in the 1979 film ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grim artifact that had been on display for decades in a Georgia university has been authenticated as a human head taken from a ...

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 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 ...

TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) -- It's a big tourist attraction, but believe it or not Ripley's in Manhattan was ripped off. Thieves managed to swap some authentic baseball memorabilia with some fakes ...

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 ...

There can be few tourist exhibits as grimly fascinating as that which greets visitors to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Housed in a wooden cabinet labelled ‘Treatment of Dead Enemies’ it consists ...

For the past several weeks, I've been processing the extensive Hartwig Kuhlenbeck collection. Kuhlenbeck, born in Germany in 1897, was Professor of Anatomy and, later, Emeritus Professor at Woman's ...