A family in Soddy-Daisy is distraught and trying to sort out the confusion after learning that the burial plot they bought ...

Any true historian knows that if you want to research the life of someone who died several generations ago, you’d better be willing to dig. So when local historians Phyllis Bridges and Linda Willard ...

But during recent roadwork, a team of archaeologists from Headland Archaeology discovered not only a small cemetery near a section of a Roman-era road, but the uniquely peculiar burial practice of ...

Both the marker and the landmark designation are a long time coming, according to the local leaders who led the charge and ...

It is thought to indicate a high-status burial with analysis of gypsum casts from a previous excavation in York revealing traces of expensive oils and perfumes. The cemetery dating to the Roman ...

“These factors coupled with the central position of the burial within the cemetery points to an important person, perhaps the head of a prominent family,” Lowther said. To read about 6,000 ...

A 47-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison for breaking into a mausoleum at Crown Hill Cemetery in Jefferson County and stealing a corpse, according to court records. Related ...

A mass grave discovered last December in a suburb of Guadalajara with dozens of bags of dismembered body parts contained the remains of 24 people, Mexican authorities said Sunday. Six of them — ...

Two climate protesters defaced Charles Darwin’s grave at London’s Westminster Abbey on Monday, spray painting a message about global warming that has led to criminal charges. The activists ...

Environmental activists in the UK painted Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey on Monday with the words “1.5 is dead,” referencing the critical climate threshold that the world ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Vice President (OVP) on Wednesday said it had discontinued its medical and burial assistance programs after it failed to get an allocation for these ...

According to the Paths to Reconciliation map of unmarked burial sites ... rows The release said the majority of burial features within the historical cemetery met at least three of the above ...