Beneath the roots of a fallen tree in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen recently uncovered seven oversized ceramic urns, some of which were filled with the bones of humans, fish, frogs and turtles ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden in Luxor, Egypt that may once have been planted with symbols of fertility and the resurrection of the dead.

Funerary arts play a vital role in preserving key cultural values and knowledge keeping while reminding us of our humanity by so devotedly caring for the dead. Toraja people of Indonesia; central ...

Left, a reconstruction of the marble funerary stele of Paramythion and Pheidiades, 2008, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann at the Met, with synthetic marble, egg tempera.

The Native American remains belong to Seminole and Miccosukee tribes in Florida and Oklahoma. They can be returned as early ...

Photo 1: The soul in the stone - A funerary monument recovered in southeastern Turkey reveals that people who lived in an important Iron Age city there believed the soul was separate from the ...

In his book, Kriwaczek writes about "funerary duels" in France in the 1810s: Two violinists improvised on a fragment of melody, attempting to draw more tragedy from it than his opponent; ...

(1) The Mummy: a Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archœology. By Sir E. A. Wallis Budge. Second edition, revised and greatly enlarged. Pp. xxiv + 513 + 39 plates ...