Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

A Bronze Age mass burial pit at Twentyshilling Barrow has been found in Scotland during the construction of a wind farm.

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper published in the journal Science Advances, radiocarbon testing dates the ...

A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

Loop Biotech is a company based in the Netherlands that aims to change people's perception of burial and cremation completely ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

A nearly 10,000-year-old pyre discovered in Africa has revealed the country’s oldest cremation. In a study published in the ...

Jammu and Kashmir unit chief, Manish Sahni has appealed to Hindus to stay away from electric cremation machines, alleging that traditional rituals and Sanatani faith are being destroyed under the ...