March 29 marks the anniversary of the last American troops leaving Vietnam, and many veterans waited years to be truly ...

Local veterans and other military personnel of both past and present gathered at Rock Island National Cemetery Saturday, ...

New York City was at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, losing 46,000 residents — but five years later, a memorial to ...

“It sheds light on an incredibly rich culture of symbolic and ritual behaviors, especially in connection with burials.” While researchers have yet to determine what type of hominins are buried ...

Jackson used a drone to take aerial photos of the Hart Island burials. “The scene seemed so surreal, with implications so sobering, that I was optimistic it would be impossible for anyone to ...

The island of Ocracoke in North Carolina is known for its distinct "Hoi Toider" brogue (Credit: Alamy) Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be some of the world’s oldest known burials in a prehistoric cave in central Israel. The remains, carefully placed in small graves and coated in red pigment, ...

The updated date range of the skeleton sheds light on the burial that the child was given during a time when the ancient Gravettian culture had spread all throughout Europe. In 1998, a group of ...

A £1m project is investigating a Roman burial ritual in Yorkshire which created casts of the dead. The University of York's Prof Maureen Carroll is leading a team examining the 22 3rd and 4th ...