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.

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 ...

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 ...

A routine metal-detecting outing along Norway’s central coast has led to the discovery of a rare and striking Viking Age grave, offering insight into burial practices in the area that took place more ...

A peculiar seventh-century hoard unearthed in the English countryside could be the result of a “ritual killing,” according to archaeologists. A rare seventh-century gold hoard was found in ...

But the intentional removal or damage of objects from a burial could also point to a “ritual killing.” The hoard may also have been hidden by local women during a time of upheaval. How the artifacts ...