Skul Duggery

Dragon Bones tells the legends surrounding the discovery on the outskirts of Beijing - and eventually disappearance - of the Peking Man fossils. Wang Kaihao reports.

The saga of the missing skulls of Peking Man, a collection of Homo erectus fossil specimens unearthed in the Zhoukoudian area, Fangshan district of Beijing, remains a big mystery to this day.

In spite of their significance in academic studies, they disappeared during World War II, according to scholars.