A 6th Century burial ground and two Iron Age roundhouses have been discovered during a Scottish Water sewer upgrade project ...

What goes on when a body that is marked by illness or abnormal anatomy is put on the highest ground that a community can come ...

Archaeologists are doing excavation work along the A66 ahead of plans to widen the road.

A windswept mound on England’s Cumbrian coast may conceal one of the most sought-after Viking burials in Britain: the grave of Ivarr “the Boneless”, a feared 9th-century war leader linked to the Great ...

Archaeologists uncovered a rare Anglo-Saxon "princely" grave with two men and a horse at an England nuclear site, revealing ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The symbol is frequently seen in ancient burials — especially on a type of amulet ...

Human remains from ancient mass grave reveal how people responded to world’s first pandemic - Ancient city’s burial capacity likely stretched to its limits ...

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 ...

An unusual and ancient Roman burial site unearthed in Turkey reveals reverence and respect for the dead — but also a powerful sense of dread among the living, according to a recent study. At the ...

Archeologists find the lost tomb of an unnamed pharaoh, in a burial complex in Egypt that reflects a time of fragmented rule.

The beachside town of Kailua could be designated a burial ground, affording more protection to a roughly estimated 3, 000 unmarked ancient Hawaiian graves located in the community built largely on ...

A double burial found in southern Italy more than 60 years ago has just yielded a striking new secret: ancient DNA has confirmed a rare inherited form of dwarfism in a teenage girl who lived around 12 ...