Tagged: burial

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 Mexico City’s Templo Mayor. Researchers found the burial about 15 feet below the surface, next...

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 study of 18th century Hungarian mummies concludes that a genetic predisposition to colorectal cancer preceded...

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 a Star of David. The unique re-naming ceremony is slated to take place in Manilla,...

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 of an Anglo-Saxon. The tomb dates back about 1,400 years and can be explored virtually....

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 in ancient Egypt — so why did all these mummies end up in the same...

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 the fuzzy picture of how humans first migrated into the Americas. Scientists have sequenced the...

– 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 on ancient burial practices and offers evidence of intentional fragmentation of objects in a ritual...

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 most curios find that to this day remain an unsolved enigma. It all started in...

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 were children, were victims of the Black Death, according to archaeologists from the University of...

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 from the 7th-9th century AD and remarkably well-preserved due to the waterlogged conditions of the...