On February 24, 2022, Russia sent shockwaves across the globe after launching a full-on invasion of Ukraine. Televisions everywhere showed images of Russian tanks and military vehicles steamrolling ...

The discovery included a small amphora, an ancient Greek vessel sometimes used in funeral rituals. Photo from the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Soldiers building ...

Archaeologists think they have found one of the world’s oldest burial sites in a cave in central Israel. The carefully arranged remains of early humans, dating back some 100,000 years, have been ...

A Sudan desert burial site contained two clay vessels, one with the remains of a campfire. The campfire was probably part of a funeral ritual, and the remains—which likely held the scraps of a funeral ...

Researchers say the findings will illuminate the history of “the least widely known and understood [burial rituals] in the region.” Archaeologists working in Morocco have unearthed three separate ...