Sotheby’s had listed the gems, which were worked into pendants, beads, and other ornaments, as being of “unparalleled religious ... Underneath were five urns packed with human ashes, gold, and gems.

Cemeteries are running out of space, and cremation damages the environment, but there are other ways we could honour our dead ...

Cremation is a process in which intense fire is used to transform the human body back to its basic elements, “ashes to ashes ... These “cremains” are then placed in a plastic bag inside an urn and ...

After two traumatic moments, the Oviedo studio The Artistic Hand lives on thanks to an adoptive family of artists.

Seven urns containing human bones were discovred in the Amazon after a tree fell, offering rare insight into early life and ...

When a tree fell in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, local villagers noticed something big and very strange lurking ...

Two urns containing human ashes, the symbolic remnants of the 86,000 Jews of Vilna and thousands of other Jews from Latvia who were slain by the Nazis during World War II, were laid to rest ...

And urn-believable discovery was made in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil after a fallen tree exposed seven funerary vessels ...

Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, is no ordinary archaeological site. Discovered in 1939, it stunned historians with its 7th-century ship burial, filled with golden treasures, finely wrought weapons, and an ...

Putting a loved one to rest in the UK typically involves either a ground burial or a flame-based cremation. But an ...

(Beirut) – Qatari authorities have discriminated against members of the Baha’i faith, including with unlawful detentions, based solely on their religious identity, Human Rights Watch said today.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'Mercy and compassion must be our first impulse when confronted with sin and human failure,' said ... in the world of politics, religion, family life and education.