Sherlock Holmes wasn’t involved, but there were two Dr. Watsons in the mix, with a partial solution, and the discovery of what appears to be a mass gravesite in Downingtown. Watson Brothers, Dr.

A small crowd braved torrential rain to attend the service after it was found that nearly 1,500 people are buried in the site ...

For the first time in centuries, public access to the Knock has been denied. Although the hill is widely acknowledged to be ...

A recent German excavation revealed a grim Celtic-era grave of a woman and child who may have suffocated from fermentation ...

A millet-farming settlement on the Shandong coast in Neolithic China around 4,500 years ago organized its society by maternal ...

A service to remember nearly 1500 children and adults buried in what was once called a 'paupers' grave' was held on Saturday ...

The most venerated site in the Christian world, the tomb today consists of a limestone shelf or burial bed that was hewn from the wall of a cave. Since at least 1555, and most likely centuries ...

Sandra Arnold’s work as a historian of burial grounds started after she visited her great-grandfather’s grave in Tennessee. Arnold’s great-aunt was his youngest child. She died at age 101 ...

Last month’s visit to Chester/Deva got me of Roman Britain. I have previously visited Silchester/Calleva (CA 337, April 2018) ...

Washington is expected to become the first state to legalize an environmentally-friendly burial alternative that turns bodies into soil within weeks. A bill allowing “natural organic reduction ...

The unusual burial at Çemka Höyük—Turkish for “mound by the water”—took place during what archaeologists call the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period, a transitional stage of human ...

New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.