Death is a shared commonality of the human condition, yet the rituals that attend it vary significantly across cultures and religions. The one commonality is that while the nature of death itself does ...

Preliminary IAA inspection of the 3,300-year-old cave at Palmachim National Park, September 13, 2022. (Credit: Emil Eljam/IAA.) Listen An unprecedented archeological find in Israel is giving people a ...

The second day of Heckerling concluded with a program on the intersection of religious beliefs and estate planning. Presented by Lauren J. Wolven, Tanya D. Marsh and Stacy E. Singer, the session, ...

A new study published by archaeologists in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology set out to answer questions about the spatiality, chronology, and symbolic aspects of Southern Jê burial caves ...

Ancient Romans and Greeks placed coins in the mouth of the deceased for passage through the mythological Styx; memorials are dedicated to victims of genocide; vultures consume bodies in the high ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have uncovered what may be one of the world's oldest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cairo — Egyptian archaeologists say they've uncovered remains and a myriad of artifacts in part of a Greco-Roman cemetery that ...

At Hadrianopolis in northern Turkey, archaeologists uncovered a Roman-era burial placed inside an enormous ceramic storage jar. Researchers said it appears to be the first find of ...