At the height of the world’s first pandemic, the people of the ancient Roman city of Jerash buried hundreds of bodies on top of each other within days, a new archaeological study of a mass grave ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a large ancient burial site during construction on a nuclear reactor.

Researchers say the findings will illuminate the history of “the least widely known and understood [burial rituals] in the region.” Archaeologists working in Morocco have unearthed three separate ...

The discoveries illuminate the history of a little-known culture. Archaeologists have discovered an untouched 2,500-year-old warrior burial mound. The skeleton held a rare bronze sword with unique ...

Archaeologists find 20 people buried beneath a single floor in Çatalhöyük, revealing key rituals and social changes.

The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

The burial was discovered in the ancient cemetery of Ai-Lias at Knossos. It dates back to the Middle Minoan IIIB - Late ...

The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru 5,000 years ago Reading time 2 minutes Roughly around the same time that ...

A low-income rental apartment project under construction at 330 Kuulei Road in Kailua is located near known Native Hawaiian burials, but no iwi kupuna have been discovered at the site. Select an ...