It’s possible that Shakespeare was quite short, but I can’t see Ben Jonson or Christopher Marlowe letting that one go. There have long been rumors that Shakespeare’s skull was stolen.

The story of Shakespeare's missing skull appeared in The Argosy magazine in 1879, blaming its absence on trophy hunters from the previous century when grave-robbing was common.

Archeologists who scanned the grave of William Shakespeare say they have made a startling discovery: His skull appears to be missing.The researchers used ground-penetrating radar to explore ...

An archaeologist has concluded that William Shakespeare's skull is missing from the Bard's burial site at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

The skull of that wily old stoner William Shakespeare, or as his friends called him, Billy Shakes, is missing. In 1879, Argosy magazine published a shocking story that the head of the second ...

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.

Per those rumors, grave-robbers took the skull from Shakespeare's grave at the Church of the Holy Trinity in England's Stratford-upon-Avon in 1794. At the time, trophy hunters believed a person's ...

LONDON (AP) — Archaeologists who scanned the grave of William Shakespeare say they have made a head-scratching discovery: His skull appears to be missing. Researchers used ground-penetrating ...

It looks like Shakespeare's skull really is missing from his grave. That's what an archaeologist has concluded after researchers were allowed to use ground-penetrating radar to scan the Bard's ...