The British model provides a striking contrast. Since the 1996 Treasure Act, British law has required that significant ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing.

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Architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Daniel Libeskind, Audrey Large and Philippe Starck have created funeral urns for Il Tornitore Matto by Alessi's The Last Pot exhibition at ...

asks Jonathan Hancock, co-founder of Urn Studios, a new UK-based platform redefining the aesthetics of remembrance. 'There’s no reason why an urn can’t be something beautiful, honouring the life of ...

A New Orleans man stumbles upon a puzzling find on Franklin Avenue Tuesday afternoon. After finding an urn while pumping gas, William Thomas is looking to reunite the urn to the family it belongs to.

The name derives from a legend that the large urn above its façade hides a valuable ... A jade mask and more Maya grave finds An ornate jade mask, made from interlocking pieces of jade with ...

The Urn: Trench A2- Urn-1 in Sivagalai in Tuticorin district which yielded three samples and all three dates of the samples belong to the same period around 5000 years ago. The Urn: Trench A2- Urn ...

BELOIT, Ill. (WREX) — A woman left an urn at a movie theater back in September. Now she is saying she did so intentionally. She said her choice to place the ashes in the theater was not an ...

Mexico and Central America are rich in Mayan ruins. Satellites are helping scientists spot more ancient Mayan ruins than ever before, which is no small feat considering how thick the forest is in ...