In 19th-century America, city vaults emerged as a distinctive feature of both urban and rural cemeteries, reflecting both ...

For the Lowcountry's first green burial site, the "end of life" is the start of something new."If we're trying to restore the ecology of the earth, it's pertine ...

But sometimes, it's the actual burial that is newsworthy. Such was the case of Tiverton's Rose Martin, who was well-known ...

Over 1,700 bodies and parts of bodies belonging to tribes were dug up in Louisiana in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many still ...

This serial property includes archaeological cemetery sites with burial mounds attributed to the Gaya Confederacy, which developed in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula from the 1st to the 6th ...

Deep in the ocean, whale carcasses feed an immense diversity of life. Up on land, young trees grow from the remains of dead ones. There are animals that can’t complete their lifecycle without a corpse ...