A sense of fear and outrage has taken over Mahudbi village in Chhattisgarh's Balod district after a grave of a three-year-old girl, who was buried three months ago, was disturbed in the middle of the ...

Paupers’ graves are meant for the forgotten. But what happens when the people buried there were never forgotten at all? In Cape Town, an undertaker’s alleged fraud has exposed a failure of the ...

Of all the vampire rules, we shall begin by examining the one that is probably the strangest of all: the invitation threshold ...

Israeli Defense Forces bulldozed sections of a 106-year-old Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza. Satellite imagery and witness ...

On the grounds of the 182-year-old Ihagee Plantation in Alabama, we explore a massive slave cemetery set apart from the white family plot, divided but still overlooking the same land. Hundreds of ...

Everyone is dying to try this new burial trend. Eco-conscious New Yorkers can soon turn their corpses into compost as part of ...

The ancient Southeast Asian practice of tooth blackening was once thought to have emerged ...

We would receive them as they came trundling down the sanctuary’s driveway in the funeral home minivan, we would haul their limp weight from gurneys onto our burial cart, we would wrap them in sheets ...

The oldest human remains ever found in Northern Britain have been identified as a young female three years after being discovered in a Cumbrian cave. Excavated at Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria's ...

Public works in Scotland reveal Iron Age settlement and medieval tombs hidden for centuries beneath ancient soil.

The mass grave was uncovered during a University of Cambridge training excavation at Wandlebury, an Iron Age hillfort just south of the city. The burial pit itself measured roughly four meters by one ...