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Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University...

The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of three types of bone: cranial bones, facial bones, and ear ossicles. Two parts...

The view that the Neanderthal skull was artificially deformed, thus representing the oldest example of such practices by tens of thousands of years,...

A basilar skull fracture is a break of a bone in the base of the skull. Symptoms may include bruising behind the ears, bruising around the eyes, or blood...

Plastered human skulls are human skulls covered in layers of plaster and typically found in the ancient Levant, most notably around the modern Palestinian...

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (Dutch: Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret) is an early work by Vincent van Gogh. The small and undated...

Crystal skulls are human skull hardstone carvings made of clear, milky white or other types of quartz (also called "rock crystal"), claimed to be pre-Columbian...

(Spanish – pronounced [kalaˈβeɾa] for "skull"), in the context of the Day of the Dead, is a representation of a human skull or skeleton. The term is often applied...

resemble fish scales. This human skull find paved the way for further study of ornamental, burial, and trade practices by the people of the Philippines...

Skull art is found in various cultures of the world. Indigenous Mexican art celebrates the skeleton and uses it as a regular motif. The use of skulls...

in 453 BC lacquered the skull of their enemy into a winecup. Later, the Records of the Grand Historian recorded the practice among the ancient Xiongnu...

Skull bossing is a descriptive term in medical physical examination indicating a protuberance of the skull, most often in the frontal bones of the forehead...

Interpreting Signs and Symptoms "Skull fractures. Step-by-step diagnostic approach". Best Practice, BMJ. "BMJ Best Practice". bestpractice.bmj.com. Visual...

architecture from the medieval period onwards. The most common motif is a skull, often accompanied by bones. Often this alone is enough to evoke the trope...

the skull's bones and supposedly adjust the immovable joints of the skull to achieve a therapeutic result. CST is a pseudoscience and its practice has...

Age of Piracy). The vast majority of such flags flew the motif of a human skull, or “Death's Head”, often accompanied by other elements, on a black field...

complicated by the practice of skull mutilation and modification carried out after the death of the subject, to fashion "trophy skulls" and the like of...

of their headhunting. The practice was rooted in their belief system and linked to the name-giving of the newborn. The skull was believed to contain a...

Kapalbhati (Sanskrit: कपालभाति, romanized: kapālabhāti, "Skull-polishing") is an important shatkarma, a purification in hatha yoga. The word kapalabhati...

Skull Tower (Serbian Cyrillic: Ћеле кула, romanized: Ćele kula, pronounced [tɕel̩e kula]) is a stone structure embedded with human skulls located in Niš...