Illustration of just one of almost a thousand skulls Morton and colleagues collected. Crania Americana by Samuel Morton, CC BY When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection ...

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The recent publication of the University of Edinburgh’s Review of Race and History has drawn attention to its “skull room”: a collection of 1,500 human craniums procured for study in the 19th century.

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for a slightly morbid loved one? Adopt a skull for them. The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia's Save Our Skulls fundraiser is inviting fans of medical history and the ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia museum has the perfect holiday gift idea for the person who has everything, including a love of science and a dark sense of humor. A $200 donation buys the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John James ...

The recent publication of the University of Edinburgh’s Review of Race and History has drawn attention to its “skull room”: a collection of 1,500 human craniums procured for study in the 19th century.