Three human skulls lie in a row on a disk of black cloth – not the bones themselves, but small wooden tokens representing an uncomfortable part of the World Museum’s collection of human remains. This ...

The team of researchers who discovered them through fragmented DNA in their skeletal remains have not been able to find any ancient relatives or modern descendants. They are strangely not related ...

Legend states that Ashikaga cut a piece from the Ranjatai, a rare and valuable piece of agarwood, at the time of the skeleton's discovery. The shogun was visiting the Todai-ji temple in Nara at ...