The skull in question has its own chequered past. As was tradition at the time, Mozart was initially buried in an individual plot but his body was later exhumed and moved to a communal grave to make ...

Allegedly unearthed by a grave digger a decade after Mozart's burial in an unmarked Vienna grave, the skull changed hands multiple times before its donation to Salzburg's Mozarteum in 1902.

It was supposedly recovered 10 years after Mozart's death by a gravedigger who recalled the location of his unmarked grave in Vienna. From there it passed through various hands, before being ...