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Totenkopf (German: [ˈtoːtn̩ˌkɔpf], i.e. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull. The word is often used to denote a figurative, graphic or sculptural symbol, common in Western culture, consisting of the representation of a human skull – usually frontal, more rarely in profile with or without the mandible .
Manot Cave (Hebrew: מערת מנות Me'arat Manot) is a cave in Western Galilee, Israel, discovered in 2008. [2] It is notable for the discovery of a skull that belongs to a modern human, called Manot 1, which is estimated to be 54,700 years old (U–Th dating of the calcitic crust on the Manot 1 calvaria and of speleothems in the cave).
Thorfinn Torf-Einarsson [1] also known as Thorfinn Skull-splitter [2] (from the Old Norse Þorfinnr hausakljúfr) [3] was a 10th-century Earl of Orkney. He appears in the Orkneyinga saga and briefly in St Olaf's Saga, as incorporated into the Heimskringla. These stories were first written down in Iceland in the early 13th century and much of ...
Peștera cu Oase (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpeʃtera ku ˈo̯ase], meaning "The Cave with Bones") is a system of 12 karstic galleries and chambers located near the city Anina, in the Caraș-Severin county, southwestern Romania, where some of the oldest European early modern human (EEMH) remains, between 42,000 and 37,000 years old, have been found.
Skull Tower (Serbian Cyrillic: Ћеле кула, romanized: Ćele kula, pronounced [tɕel̩e kula]) is a stone structure embedded with human skulls located in Niš, Serbia. It was constructed by the Ottoman Empire following the Battle of Čegar of May 1809, during the First Serbian Uprising .
A teenager has died after the car he was traveling in crashed into a sewage plant. The 18-year-old boy was found dead after the Volkswagen Golf was discovered “partly submerged” at the water ...
Ali Wong won big at the 2025 Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, but when she didn’t walk the red carpet with boyfriend Bill Hader or thank him in her acceptance speech, fans thought the two might ...
One skull fossil, given the name Apidima 1, [4] shows a mixture of modern human and primitive features [7] and has been dated to be more than 210,000 years old, older than a Neanderthal skull ("Apidima 2") found at the cave, [7] which per some interpretations makes Apidima 1 the oldest proof of Homo sapiens living outside Africa, [8] [9] the ...