The ceramic vessels contained the bones of pre-Columbian Indigenous people, as well as fish, frog and turtle remains ...

Inside, after digging through 18 feet of solid brickwork, the workers unearthed a huge stone slab. It was the cover of an enormous stone coffer. Underneath were five urns packed with human ashes, gold ...

Inside lay five vessels containing the gem relics and ashes with bone fragments. An urn bore an inscription that read “relics of the Buddha, the August One,” in ancient Pali.

The urn holding the man’s remains in wine also included a gold ring and bone fragments. Another urn contained a woman’s remains, along with amber jewels, perfume, and fabric remnants, likely silk.

As dawn broke on the main day of the festival last week, 20,000 holy men—at least 1,000 of them naked and covered with ashes—made up a procession down to the river with banners and bugles ...

For the 3rd time since Partition, Pakistani Hindus arrive in India with 400 urns for immersion in the Ganga at Haridwar, following Vedic rituals after prayers at Delhi’s Nigam Bodh Ghat.

There is no religious obligation to have the body cremated, because of the wish expressed by the deceased in his last will and testament that he should be cremated.

Ahmad Ervin discovered the urn filled with ashes after he was reunited with his stolen moving truck in Nevada earlier this week. On Friday, Ervin said the family of the baby’s ashes c ontacted ...

Ahmad Ervin discovered the urn filled with ashes after he was reunited with his stolen moving truck in Nevada earlier this week. On Friday, Ervin said the family of the baby’s ashes c ontacted ...