When people think of the historical “Celts,” they are really thinking of the various peoples that lived across the European continent adjacent to the ancient Greeks and Romans and in Britain during ...

Answer: Both were assassinated. Both were age 56. And Lincoln’s death — at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. — happened 160 years ago today. How does revenge shape our politics and relationships? How ...

1944: The first Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz. On the same day, General Dwight D Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. 1945: US 7th Army & ...

For centuries, pilgrims have walked through the Church of the Holy Sepulchre with reverence, believing it to be the site of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial. Now, a quiet but groundbreaking discovery ...

The platform above the burial site collapsed right from under their feet. The pallbearers were carrying Benjamin Aviles to his final resting spot. As they began to lay down the casket, video shows ...

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...

In a shocking and gruesome incident, the lifeless body of a site engineer, Chigozie Udalor, has been exhumed by police operatives after he was allegedly murdered and buried in a shallow grave by his ...

Archaeological research at the prehistoric Dorset burial site known as Flagstones has identified it as the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain. Located near Dorchester, the monument has ...

The presence of pre-Christian artefacts suggests the land changed over time from a quarry, through cultivated land to a burial site over time.

Aqib Hussain said the cemetery was "such a big thing for Bedford" Aqib Hussain, committee treasurer, believed it would be the only Muslim burial site in Bedfordshire. He said the group ...

Archaeologists said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and so Roman inhumation burials from ...