Bizarre, Long-Headed Woman from Ancient Kingdom Revealed

livescience.com ^ | June 21, 2016 08:14am ET | Tia Ghose, Senior Writer

[BenLurkin]

| The grave of a woman with a bizarre, long-headed skull has been unearthed in Korea.

The woman was part of the ancient Silla culture, which ruled much of the Korean peninsula for nearly a millennium.

Unlike some of the deformed, pointy skulls that have been found throughout the world in other ancient t graves, however, it is unlikely that this woman had her head deliberately flattened, the researchers said.

The ancient Silla Kingdom reigned over part of the Korean Peninsula from 57 B.C. to A.D. 935, making it one of the longest-ruling royal dynasties. Many of Korea's modern-day cultural practices stem from this historic culture. Yet despite its long reign and wide-ranging influence on culture, the number of Silla burials with intact skeletons remained few and far between, said study co-author Dong Hoon Shin, a bioanthropologist at Seoul National University College of Medicine in the Republic of Korea

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ButThreeLeftsDo.

[odawg]

I noticed that and it doesn’t do anything for the credibility of the article.

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I guess the back of her head is elongated, and the professional journalist photographer chose this angle to emphasize that...

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Nefertitis Conehead.

[PLMerite]

They're all the same at closing time.

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"I was expecting some big crazy long thing..."

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Same here: I was expecting something a la Indiana Jones...