Researchers uncover 2,100-year-old mass grave of dismembered Han soldiers in southern Mongolia
"Dismemberment was considered in Han culture the most humiliating way to die. Execution by dismemberment was the most ...
Hundred year old Black grave site in Virginia being moved to make way for industrial park
About 275 burial plots will be moved from the former Oak Hill Plantation to a new burial site about a mile away.
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A 4,200-Year-Old ‘Zombie Grave’ Was Just Uncovered In Germany
Archaeologists were recently excavating a site in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt ahead of an underground power line ...
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2,200-year-old grave in China contains 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' whose teeth were painted with a toxic substance
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists in China have unearthed the 2,200-year-old burial of a woman whose ... main route of the Silk Road. The site was dated to 2,200 to 2,050 years ...
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World’s oldest rune stone has more pieces that contain mysterious messages, researchers say
The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab ... an ancient grave site in eastern Norway found the ...
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Burial bonds: 110,000-year-old human-Neanderthal grave shows shared rituals
Hailed as a groundbreaking discovery in prehistoric archaeology, work began on the site back in 2017. The human burials unearthed were the first from the mid-middle Paleolithic period that ...