A team of archaeologists has claimed that William Shakespeare's skull was "probably" stolen from its final resting place in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The conclusion brings new ...

A centuries-old tale that grave robbers stole Shakespeare’s skull from its burial place, has been given new credence by scientists using 21st century technology. Radar scans of the English ...

“We have Shakespeare’s burial with an odd disturbance at the head end and we have a story that suggests that at some point in history someone’s come in and taken the skull of Shakespeare ...

Archaeologist Kevin Colls says Shakespeare's skull is not in his grave. While this has been rumored for more than a century, not everyone agrees with Colls' conclusion. In Shakespeare's play ...

It's possible the skull was removed by a relative and reburied' Chris Laoutaris, of the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute, is a Renaissance burial customs expert - and wonders ...

Yorick is the dead court jester whose skull is exhumed by the First Gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of the play. The pen’s brown lacquer barrel is decorated with a likeness of Shakespeare’s ...

A centuries-old tale that grave robbers stole Shakespeare’s skull from its burial place, has been given new credence by scientists using 21st century technology. Radar scans of the English ...

In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet famously holds up a skull, and for a couple of hundred years, a story has gone around that Shakespeare's own skull is missing from his tomb at Holy Trinity Church in ...