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Getting Power From Enemy`s Skull Tatiana Pitchugina Informnauka (Informscience) Agency textmaster@informnauka.ru 7-095-2675418 25 October 2002 The archaeologists at Komi Institute of Language, Literature and History worked at the burial-mound Shihovskoy - a cemetery with the square of 3000 square kilometer, aging back to the Iron Age. The archaeologists have excavated seven graves, they date three of them back to the first centuries A.D. These are not very big square pits, where people of that time would bury the remains of the dead body after cremation. In one of the graves there was a cup made of a human skull -...

Mystery wreck discovered in the Baltic Sea UPI Science News From the Science & Technology Desk Published 10/8/2002 3:06 PM STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The Royal Swedish Navy said Tuesday it has discovered an underwater mystery shipwreck with skulls littering its centuries-old wooden decks. The sailing ship, which marine archaeologists think is more than 200 years old, was found standing upright on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The reason for why it sank is so far an enigma, because its hull and masts remain perfectly intact. "We don't have any clues whatsoever right now on what made...

August 6, 2002 Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human OriginsBy JOHN NOBLE WILFORD wo ancient skulls, one from central Africa and the other from the Black Sea republic of Georgia, have shaken the human family tree to its roots, sending scientists scrambling to see if their favorite theories are among the fallen fruit. Probably so, according to paleontologists, who may have to make major revisions in the human genealogy and rethink some of their ideas about the first migrations out of Africa by human relatives. Yet, despite all the confusion and uncertainty the skulls...

PARIS (Reuters) - A prehistoric skull touted as the oldest human remains ever found is probably not the head of the earliest member of the human family but of an ancient female gorilla, a French scientist said on Friday. Brigitte Senut of the Natural History Museum in Paris said certain aspects of the skull, whose discovery in Chad was announced on Wednesday, were actually sexual characteristics of female gorillas rather than indications of a human character.Two other French experts cast doubt on the skull as Michel Brunet, head of the archeological team that discovered it, was due to present his...

<p>WASHINGTON — The medical examiner inspecting Chandra Levy's remains has discovered a crack in the former federal intern's skull, investigators have told Fox News.</p> <p>Washington's medical examiner, Dr. Jonathan Arden, is trying to determine if the crack in the skull was the cause of her death or contributed to her death, or if it came after the fact, after she was already dead. The skull Arden is examining is not a complete skull.</p>