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MEXICO CITY – Mexican archaeologists say they have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman is surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones in...

Mummies have long offered up a wealth of medical information, from the role that diet plays in heart disease to the ancient origins of tuberculosis. Now, a new PLOS One...

Some 75 years later – after a series of recent serendipitous moments and intensive research – five fallen Jewish American soldiers from World War II finally will be buried beneath...

The tomb of an Anglo-Saxon prince has revealed treasures such as a decorated lyre, painted woodwork and a gold belt buckle. The treasure-laden tomb is the first known Christian burial...

More than 4,000 years ago in Egypt, dozens of men who died of terrible wounds were mummified and entombed together in the cliffs near Luxor. Mass burials were exceptionally rare...

Dressed in moccasins and a rabbit-skin shroud, a man was laid to rest in a cave in Nevada about 10,600 years ago. Now, his mummy is helping scientists fill in...

– Archaeologists excavating in Arene Candide Cave have discovered evidence humans may have ritualistically “killed” pebbles to remove their symbolic power about 12,000 years ago. This discovery sheds new light...

About 200 years ago, seventeen concealed miniature coffins were discovered in a cave in Edinburgh’s Arthur’s Seat, Scotland. No-one knows who put the tiny coffins there and why. It’s a...

An extremely rare Black Death burial site has been found at the site of a 14th-century monastery hospital at Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire. As many as 48 skeletons, many of which...

Anglo-Saxon cemetery has been discovered in the valley of the River Wensum at Great Ryburgh in Norfolk. Previously unknown burial site contains rare ‘plank-lined’ graves and tree-trunk coffins dated back...