A Bronze Age burial in central Germany has jolted archaeologists and captivated the public, not because of treasure or royal ...

His Pulitzer-nominated book “Graven Images” inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery ...

The opening of a richly furnished ancient grave in Greece has turned a routine excavation into a gripping reconstruction of ...

Some burial rites are meant to bring the dead back home. The dead are buried away in a decent and humane way. We do that within the parameters of human dignity. There’s generally nothing wrong about ...

She calls herself “an archaeologist without a degree” and tries to fix other people’s mistakes. Conde, who now lives in Massachusetts, began her fascination with cemeteries in Wadsworth when her ...

The entire history of the Wild West didn’t take place in Tombstone. It just seems that way due to the legendary cast of characters that shot their way into the history books. Founded in 1879 after ...

I grew up near a cemetery, up on Teaberry Hill in rural Pennsylvania. In the winter, I could spy some of the headstones from my bedroom window, solitary and dusted in snow. Then in the spring the ...

STATEN ISLAND, New York (WABC) -- A family from Staten Island has been trying to add the last touch to their loved one's final resting place for more than a year, but when they paid for an inscription ...

Ed Gein died while in psychiatric care and was later buried alongside his family members Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about celebrities, entertainment, reality TV stars ...

Thanks to viral news coverage, experts are unraveling the mystery of how an ancient Roman soldier’s gravestone ended up in the garden of a New Orleans home. The untangling began when Erin Scott ...

Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenzo, were doing yardwork at their New Orleans home in March when he found a marble slab beneath a lemon tree, hidden under a tangle of thick vines and dirt.