Sandra Arnold’s work as a historian of burial grounds started after she visited her great-grandfather’s grave in Tennessee. Arnold’s great-aunt was his youngest child. She died at age 101 ...

Washington is expected to become the first state to legalize an environmentally-friendly burial alternative that turns bodies into soil within weeks. A bill allowing “natural organic reduction ...

A cast of the burial, shown here, allows viewers to see the skeletons in three dimensions. The children’s teeth reveal their ages to be five and seven. Four perfectly shaped arrowheads in the ...

The unusual burial at Çemka Höyük—Turkish for “mound by the water”—took place during what archaeologists call the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period, a transitional stage of human ...