Digging up the Dead
An archaeological field school experience shines a light on the grave concerns people have about the treatment of human remains.
Digging up the Dead
Mortuary
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How to Care for the Dead
How long have we been burying the dead? And why is it so haunting when we can’t set those who have passed to rest?
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The Myth of Racial Purity in Roman Britain
The science is clear—early London was a multicultural society. Still, some people refuse to believe it.
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The Weird, Wild World of Mortuary Customs
Embalming is just one among the world’s wide variety of funeral practices, and in a sense it’s as ordinary as any other. Then again, it’s pretty strange.
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Why This Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange (and So Important)
An ancient interment site in Russia challenges us to rethink how Paleolithic humans in Europe treated their dead and organized their societies.
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The Darkest Truths
After the Nazis' three so-called Operation Reinhard camps swallowed more than a million and a half Jewish lives, the camps were themselves destroyed. Forensic archaeologists are finally exploring what lies beneath the earth—but not without resistance.