Highway workers found an ancient Roman cemetery, including a grave filled with a curious substance, during a recent highway construction project in England. The announcement was made last week by ...

Swedish archaeologists recently found an “unusual” Viking-era coffin dating back over 1,100 years. The discovery was announced by Arkeologerna, an archaeological organization affiliated with the ...

While the human remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society (as they had once been thought to be), ...

A family in Spain waited hours to bury their 650-pound relative because his coffin didn’t fit into the designated cemetery plot, local media outlets report. José Antonio, 28, died of complications ...

A mother who filed suit against a New Jersey cemetery claiming workers lost track of where they buried her son now claims in court papers that employees pounded a metal probe into the ground during a ...

Graves which are more than a century old could be reused in cemeteries across England and Wales under new proposals - but ...