News from burials

Mystery surrounds 800-year-old Leicester burial pit containing 123 bodies

Scans finally reveal how mummy was sealed in coffin 'with no opening'

Plea hearing postponed for Colorado funeral home owners accused of letting 190 bodies decay

When a burial for slave trade victims is unearthed, a small island faces a reckoning | Aeon Videos

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals buried their dead around the same time 120,000 years ago

Iron Age woman was buried with a knife stuck into her grave. Archaeologists aren't sure why.

Secret tomb containing remains of 12 skeletons discovered at Petra site in Jordan

Twice as many women as men were buried in the megalithic necropolis of Panoria, study finds

16,000-year-old skeleton, crystals and stone tools discovered in Malaysian caves

Learn about some of the graves and cemeteries left behind by ancient humans

Royton Cemetery: Babies and children among 300 bodies found in mass grave in Oldham

Poland holds state burial for over 700 victims of German WWII massacres

NY nonprofit reclaims centuries-old cemetery for enslaved people

An upstate New York nonprofit is reclaiming a centuries-old cemetery for people who were enslaved

Rare pre-Inca burials of 4 people found at 'water cult' temple in Peru

New excavations reveal missing pieces of intriguing artifact at Sutton Hoo