Joining Nepal's monks and morticians in the valleys of Mustang, we face mortality in its most elemental form.

In Tana Toraja, a mountainous region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, villagers pour massive resources into funeral rituals: lavish feasts, ornate effigies and prized water buffaloes for sacrifice.

A viral video captured a young man's reluctance to enter his sibling's grave due to a bizarre burial tradition, sparking ...

The Menga dolmen in Antequera, Spain, is a Neolithic monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. The monument, built ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric ...

Hanging coffins and cliff burials were once widespread across parts of East and Southeast Asia, shaped by beliefs around ...

Scientists confirm a toxic red pigment in a 2,000-year-old Scythian grave, offering new insight into ancient burial rituals ...

OVER 300 graves have been discovered at one of the UK’s largest Roman cemetries. Ahead of major road works, a 21-mile stretch ...

Pallbearers carry the casket bearing the body of the late former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo, during the requiem mass at CITAM, Valley Road in Nairobi, on December 27, 2025. [Benard Orwongo, Standard As ...

Flint objects dating to 7500 BCE from Kharaysin appear to depict human bodies — not tools — and were buried alongside the dead in what seems to be an ancient funeral ritual. These eerie shapes may ...

Excavations at Oluz Höyük in Amasya, north-central Turkey. Credit: Şevket Dönmez / CC BY-NC 4.0 Archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence of a Phoenician presence in central Anatolia, ...

High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground. Long treated as archaeological curiosities, these ...