Excavations at a nuclear power site in the United Kingdom have revealed evidence of a "high-status" Anglo-Saxon burial.

The Menga dolmen in Antequera, Spain, is a Neolithic monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. The monument, built ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric ...

A funeral specialist says the wounds of grief could reopen for families who have loved ones buried at the cemetery where a ...

Archaeologists in Britain uncovered a rare Anglo-Saxon “princely” grave with a horse, linking the burial to elite traditions.

“This finding aligns with both modern soil science and the medieval ‘miasma theory,’ which held that diseases spread through ...

A DNA analysis of human remains found that two medieval men were buried in a peculiar position at a ritualistic site from the ...

Op-ed: From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, reveals the long pattern of Black Americans ...

An interdisciplinary research team from Leipzig has discovered strong evidence of a Black Death mass grave near the deserted ...

In 2022, a farmer plowing his field in Rhubodach, Scotland came across the remains of two people that date back 4,000 years.

In Sweden, during the construction of the Ostlänken railway at Logsjomossen, a 5,000-year-old dog skeleton was found with a ...