Fifth-century child’s skeleton shows evidence of “vampire burial”

Enlarge / Archaeologists excavated the skeleton from a fifth-century cemetery in the Umbria region of Italy. (credit: David Picked/Stanford University) Archaeologists have discovered the skeleton of a 10-year-old child at an ancient Roman site in Italy with a rock carefully placed in its mouth. This suggests those who buried the child—who probably died of malaria […]

3,000yo Egyptian cheese infected with deadly disease unearthed at ancient burial site

Connoisseurs say that the taste of cheese improves with age – but what if it was left to age for 3,200 years? Archaeologists in Egypt now have the chance to find out, but it comes with an unexpected bonus: deadly ancient bacteria. A team from the University of Catania in Italy found the cheese at […]

Brigitte Macron looks solemn as she attends burial ceremony in daring mini dress

Brigitte Macron, 70, joined her husband French President Emmanuel Macron for the funeral of Simone Veil, a former political and survivor of the Holocaust. Simone Veil passed away on the 30th June 2017, with a special burial service taking place in Paris today. Simone was one of France’s most revered politicians, president of the European […]

New study adds evidence to debate over the only known Clovis burial

Enlarge / Lorena Becerra-Valdivia used this equipment to extract hydroxyproline from the Anzick site bone samples. (credit: Becerra-Valdivia) At sites scattered across western North America, long, fluted stone projectile points mark the presence of ancient people from a culture archaeologists now call Clovis. For much of the 20th century, the Clovis people were considered the very […]

New Kiev law marks shift ‘from sabotage to burial’ on Minsk deal – Russian senator

The new Ukrainian law on the reintegration of Donbass means an end to the Minsk peace deal and will likely lead to a new war in the southeast of the country, Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev warned. “By adopting the odious law on the reintegration of Donbass, the Verkhovna Rada [parliament] of Ukraine has effectively axed […]

Ant queens’ bizarre burial ritual helps prevent deadly disease contamination

Published time: 13 Oct, 2017 22:39 Ant queens who set up their colonies in partnership with one another stand a greater chance of avoiding fatal disease if they bite, dismantle and bury their counterpart after they die. Researchers studying colony foundation at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria made the discovery while monitoring the […]

3,700yo pyramid remains found near ancient Egyptian burial site (PHOTOS)

Published time: 3 Apr, 2017 20:36 Evidence of a previously unknown Egyptian pyramid dating back about 3,700 years has been discovered at a site in southern Cairo thought to be early attempts at burial tombs. Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mahmoud Afifi confirmed the remains were uncovered by archaeologists to the north of the so-called Bent Pyramid, […]