The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where people use wrapped fabric to permanently reshape the skull in infancy and ...

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Archaeologists excavating an ancient graveyard in Iran discovered what they believe to be a young woman's skull which had been intentionally modified. Researchers at the Chega Sofla cemetery, which ...