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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford has removed its shrunken heads exhibit in an effort to “decolonize” its collections on display. The museum, known as one of the world’s leading ...

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 ...

This is how Nick Magoteaux, event booker and sound engineer for The Shrunken Head, described the live music and open-mic venue. That is as close as one can get to defining the very core of this place.