Paris is offering a unique lottery for burial plots in its most famous cemeteries. Residents can win a spot near cultural ...

Archaeologists have unearthed numerous Viking burials sites and extensive treasure which date back to the Iron Age, Ancient ...

New study debunks the “plague of Akhetaten." They found orderly burials and stable demographics pointing to a crisis, not a ...

Paris has launched a lottery with an unusual prize: the chance to be buried in one of its iconic cemeteries. According to City Hall, the initiative aims to restore neglected tombs while giving ...

A discovery at a Mississippi River fishing spot in southeast Missouri prompts an investigation into a partial skull’s age and ...

QUANTICO, Va. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces, with U.S. military might being deployed against what he described as the ...

Buried for centuries, a teenage boy's body was found eerily intact—and entirely green. What scientists uncovered inside his ...

The Pere-Lachaise cemetery is prime real estate. It's a famous place and the final resting place of loads of celebrities and ...

Archaeologists in Gloucester have uncovered hundreds of mysterious skeletons beneath a former department store.

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

More than 40 memorial monuments at the Rhode Island Military Cemetery provide a lesson in history and honor the state's service members.

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...