Hunter-gatherers who built and worshiped at one of the oldest known ritual centers in the world carved up human skulls in a style all their own. At Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe site — where human ...

Archaeologists have discovered round stone buildings, pillars and elaborate animal carvings at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. More recently, they have discovered carved human skulls that may have been ...

The flute, thought to be carved from a goat or sheep tibia resembles a modern recorder. By SAMUEL HALPERN NOVEMBER 18, 2022 09:50 Updated: NOVEMBER 18, 2022 09:52 Bone flute.

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 12,000-year-old flutes carved out of bird bones at a prehistoric site in Israel. When played, the artifacts mimic the calls of certain birds of prey.

A collection of small flutes carved from waterfowl bones may have been used as hunting aids, a new study suggests. Laurent Davin, an archaeologist at the French Research Center in Jerusalem ...

More clarity about how the carved human skulls were used at Goebekli Tepe may come with time. The ancient temple compound is large and sprawling — roughly 22 acres.

The three carved skulls in question only make up 15 percent of all the crania found at Göbekli Tepe, the oldest temple site in the world. That’s significant archaeologically, but cult-wise, not ...

It’s carved from the bone of a cave bear – and it sounds hauntingly beautiful. oldest surviving composition. The Neanderthal Flute is carved from the bone of a Cave Bear. Picture: The Archaeology News ...

The skulls were carved from blocks of quartz — sometimes called rock crystal — and show the marks of modern carving tools. That means they were not made before the 19th century.

Deep within a Spanish cave, archaeologists have found the remains of seven ancient people whose bodies appear to have been skinned, carved, and boiled in what may have been an extensive funerary ...

The flute is just 8mm in diameter and has five finger holes along its 22cm length. Around each hole, there are up to four precisely carved notches, which Conard thinks were measurement markers ...