Substantial debate surrounds the relative lack of formal burials in Britain during the fifth century AD, which was a key period of social and economic transition following the withdrawal of the Roman ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Archaeologists have dug up a huge burial site that could change what the world knows about the Viking times. The excavation of a large Viking-era ...

Sediment analysis and dating of ceramics found around the burial site indicate the children lived around the 13th century. Superstitious beliefs were prevalent during the Middle Ages and people ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed more than 50 “exceptionally well preserved” skeletons in a large Viking-era burial ground in the east of the country. A team from Museum Odense have ...

A new book charts the history of pet cemeteries and honors the universal experience of grieving an animal companion Rachel Nuwer When a little Maltese named Cherry died of old age in 1881 at home ...

Finding a Viking Age burial ground of this size is rare, in part because Scandinavian soil doesn't preserve skeletons well. An extraordinary Viking burial ground with the almost-complete skeletons ...

Russia is running out of cemeteries and crematoriums, a State Duma Deputy Chair has said, amid Pentagon estimates that Moscow has suffered more than 600,000 deaths in its war with Ukraine.

Department of Veterans Affairs' burial allowances are cash allowances paid to an eligible veteran's family to help defray burial and funeral costs. VA will pay a different amount depending on ...

A list of selected affiliate partners is available here. Burial insurance is a type of permanent coverage that allows you to pay for end-of-life expenses, like a funeral, a cremation or medical bills.

The result: increased survival rates in avalanche burials over the past four decades. "Up until 1990, 43.5% of buried victims survived; now, it's 53.5%," explains Simon Rauch, the study's lead ...

It was just after dark on a recent Friday the 13th, and I was sipping mezcal among the urns in a mausoleum in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. Dissolute youth revisited? Nope. An adventure in ...

For decades, apart from an annual spruce up, the cemetery has sat quiet as locals have opted to be buried in larger cemeteries at nearby towns Birchip and Donald, in Victoria's Wimmera Mallee.