It is the world's first murder, discovered at Sima de los Huesos, or the "Pit of Bones" in the Atapuerca Mountains of Spain. Writing today in the journal PLOS One, Nohemi Sala and colleagues lay ...

Workers carrying out an excavation prepare to go down to the "Sima de los Huesos" in Spain in 2010. (Agence France-Presse) London: Scientists may have cracked the world's oldest murder mystery ...

The first known murder was just as brutal as any other ... The latest skull comes from the Sima de los Huesos, or “Pit of Bones,” site in Spain, where paleontologists have found the remains ...

A nearly complete skull, Cranium 17, from the Sima de los Huesos is composed of 52 cranial ... or what may constitute the earliest case of murder in human history. Furthermore, if this individual ...

151; -- Scientists turned detectives have uncovered the earliest known evidence of a murder in human history ... the find while working at the Sima de Los Huesos, which translates to the "Pit ...

Scientists have stumbled upon what may be the world's first known murder at an archeological site in Spain. Examining fragments of a human skull found in the Sima de los Huesos (or "Pit of Bones ...

Forensic reconstruction of a skull found in the Sima de los Huesos, or “pit of bones”, suggests it belonged to a homicide victim. An international research team, which spent 20 years ­piecing ...

The "Pit of Bones," or Sima de los Huesos in Spanish, is a landmark archaeological site in the Atapuerca Mountains, just outside Ibeas de Juarros in Burgos Province, Spain. Unveiling crucial ...

A total of 57 cranial lesions with signs of healing have been documented in 20 individuals at the Sima de los Huesos, which means that these injuries definitely happened before death. These ...