Many archaeological discoveries do come from ancient burials but usually not those of the famous. For example, they can yield information about the society of the buried people, their role in it or ...

For more than two millennia, a pair of modest graves lay anonymous, their occupants reduced to catalog numbers and conjecture. Only recently have researchers begun to argue that the bones inside may ...

Scientists are blaming an unsuspecting creature for disturbing a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal burial: burrowing bees. These insects may have hidden pollen underneath a Neanderthal's remains, tricking ...

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We have been burying our dead and performing funerary rituals for millennia. It's just something humans do, so it's hard to ...