Researchers from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona have identified the oldest mule documented in the western Mediterranean ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

A new discovery at an English farm may offer insight into the histories of two monumental creations. Amateur archaeologists discovered a burial from the Bronze Age, but may have also uncovered a henge ...

An unusual structural failure recently caused a dramatic, sinkhole-like collapse in an historic English churchyard — revealing a 300-year-old family vault. The hole opened up on Saturday, Nov. 8, at ...

A recent study by Dr. Omer Peleg and his colleagues examined the unique 7th-century BCE (Iron IIC) cremation burial assemblage discovered at Horvat Tevet. The assemblage is the richest and most ...

"The grave contains what we believe is a woman, buried with a typical Viking Age outfit and jewelry dating to the ninth century," Raymond Sauvage, head engineer at the Norwegian University of Science ...

The funeral for former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is set to take place this week in Washington, DC. Cheney died of complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease at the age of 84 on ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...

The family of two sisters fatally shot in their Tuscaloosa apartment is asking for help with their burial. Kaliyah Houston, 20, and Christasia Prewitt, 16, were killed late Monday night in a shooting ...

Natural burials that forgo embalming, heavy caskets and concrete vaults are becoming more common as people look for more environmentally-friendly ways of returning their body to the earth after they ...