Mummification is among the best-known religious practices of the ancient Egyptians, yet apart from a few textual descriptions and tomb paintings, very little is known about the facilities where this ...
A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold, saying questions ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...
The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the ...
The oldest known cremation found in Africa, dating from 9,500 years ago, raises a question: Why were the remains burned in ...