
A picture taken on January 24, 2012 shows a skull unearthed as archeologists and villagers searched a cemetery in the southwestern Spanish town of Gerena, looking for a mass grave thought to contain the remains of 17 women who where shot by General Francisco Franco's forces in 1937. The search for the remains comes a day before Spain's crusading judge Baltasar Garzon goes on trial charged with abuse of power for having opened an investigation into the disappearance of 114,000 people during Spain's 1936-39 civil war and Franco's subsequent dictatorship. By Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Images.