The statue has a small head with slanted eyes, a flat nose and an elongated skull. It was found by a team of Kuwaiti and Polish archaeologists who were carrying out excavations at Bahra 1 ...

Shorouq Al-Ashqar, the lead study author, with the Bastetodon syrtos skull and a Bastet statue. Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam Once upon a time, some 30 million years ago, what is now Egypt’s Western ...

Although they left no written records, the Tumaco-Tolita (also spelled Tumaco-La Tolita) people created this gold statue ... a baby's head so that the skull grows in a different shape.