A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson has documented something archaeologists have long struggled to find in ...

At Mount Hora, archaeologists discovered the oldest human cremation in Africa and the oldest in situ adult pyre in the world.

Archaeologists working in Malawi say they have uncovered the world’s earliest known intentional cremation of an adult human, ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

The 9,500-year-old remains were discovered to be of a woman who was between 18 and 60 years old when she died. According to ...

Within Africa, there is evidence of burned human remains at a 7,500-year-old site in Egypt, although these are not associated ...

An international team of researchers, co-led by Yale University paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson, has documented the ...

Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss has announced she is pregnant with her and husband Josh Villalta's first child together.

About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...

Trenton, NJ – New Jersey has officially legalized human composting, becoming the 14th state in the nation to allow residents ...

Meet Jonah W. Phelps, a funeral director who says it's important to slow down and not miss the little things in the ...