The ancient Egyptians believed that life on earth was only part of an eternal journey that ended not in death, but in eternal joy in the afterlife ...
Archaeologists uncover an Ancient Zapotec Tomb, Oaxaca, revealing rare murals, rituals and burial practices dating back to ...
Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.
Long before Rome claimed authority over the Italian peninsula, the Etruscans shaped a culture grounded in ritual practice and ...
Two Late Bronze Age tombs revealed in Hala Sultan Tekke, Larnaca Two chamber tombs, dating to the Late Bronze Age (14th ...
Archaeologists are doing excavation work along the A66 ahead of plans to widen the road.
Pali stanza often recited at times of death. “Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honour of the ...
A year-and-a-half after the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the Delaware Board of Funeral Services discriminated against Muslim burial practices, the ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,400-year-old Hercules shrine and elite Roman tombs in Rome’s suburbs, revealing new ...
(THE CONVERSATION) In Tana Toraja, a mountainous region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, villagers pour massive resources into funeral rituals: lavish feasts, ornate effigies and prized water buffaloes for ...