Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented ...

A gravedigger at a Cabell County cemetery was arrested on Wednesday after a baby’s corpse from 1982 and a busted casket were ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

About six months after his death, we bought a diamond blade saw to get it open as we had no idea where the key was ... She ...

Schoolcraft's historic cemetery and a 150-year-old farm were among areas damaged in Sunday night's wind storms.

The Palestinian Red Crescent says the slain workers and their vehicles were clearly marked as medical and humanitarian ...

Excavations at a necropolis outside of Liternum, near modern-day Naples, have found two ornate funerary enclosures.

The site, which is located across the street from his historic home, is - despite popular belief - open to the public ... the only occupant of this historic mausoleum. His wife, Safiya Zaghloul ...

American historian Catherine Asher, in her Architecture of Mughal India, writes of Aurangzeb’s grave, “…The emperor’s open-air grave, in accordance with his final wishes, was marked by a simple stone ...