Newly published research has revealed a "mysterious mass burial event" in the south of Scotland about 3,300 years ago.

Norway's Viking Age landscapes including ship burial mounds could soon earn global recognition if authorities get their way.

Archaeologists in Turkey uncover a 2,800-year-old royal tomb with a funeral feast, clues to Phrygian power, and links to King ...

The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

Archaeologists detected an Iron Age monumental grave in Switzerland that possibly once contained bronze items and held an ...

The burial itself was discovered in 2018, but experts only just found the remnants of the deceased’s funeral celebration.

The first man to see the Amphipolis tomb in Greece, talks about the Kasta grave and the ancient Greek treasures of ...

Archaeologists find a 'sacrificial complex' sandwiched between two burial mounds in Russia, filled with plentiful rare riches ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

Transatlantic cable equipment, an Arts and Crafts garden with gnomes and elves and an “exceptionally” rare shipwreck are among the unusual heritage protected in 2025.

Deep in a burial mound, an early Maya ruler lay adorned with hundreds of jade beads on his chest, ankles, and wrists, signaling his high status in this world and the next. Surrounding him were ...