With deformations of skulls that have a strange elongated shape, we have been around the world for thousands of years. Some of them come from the period around 7000 BC

This mysterious custom was maintained in Old Egypt, the Orient, Russia, China, Mexico, Africa, Nubia, France, Malta, and even Crete and Lapland, some of the tribes in the Amazon Basin, Patagonia and North America.

For some nations, this mysterious procedure is still popular today, for example in the African tribe of Mangbete in Zaire.