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

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

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

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

For the first time in centuries, public access to the Knock has been denied. Although the hill is widely acknowledged to be used publicly, it’s technically private land. After a group went to the summ ...

It is one of the most well-preserved Roman roads in the UK, where it runs the entire length of a country from coast to coast, ...

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 ...

A cast of the burial, shown here, allows viewers to see the skeletons in three dimensions. The children’s teeth reveal their ages to be five and seven. Four perfectly shaped arrowheads in the ...

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.