I stumbled across a strange, sad little anecdote the other day as I was researching something on another topic. It was a picture of a little girl in a fashionable dress, and the author casually mentioned that the child died… Read More
Ancient Mayans elongated the heads of young children of the wealthy and powerful by squeezing them between two boards and wrapping the heads tightly. Children's skulls grew to resemble the shape of an ear of corn. Later the Huns would do the same.