Kara Mustafa Pasha Skull

Kara Mustafa Pasha Skull

It’s a game of “Track that Skull”! We won’t get into the gory details -- buy Winchester’s book for that -- but we will say the story of Kara Mustafa Pasha and his severed head involves a failed siege, a ritual beheading, and skull that wouldn’t stay buried. Winchester’s got a personal connection with this historical head -- he held it in his own hands in 1999. But when he asked to photograph it years later for this book, he was told it’d been moved, apparently for the final time.