Damascus, Syria – In the basement of a nondescript building in Damascus is the Syrian Identification Centre’s forensic laboratory with storage units full of human bones. One cabinet is entirely ...

The "sacrificial complex" contained hundreds of bits of horse bridles and bronze beads, revealing a new aspect of ancient ...

France is not Libya or Tunisia. The UK cannot simply pay it to intercept and detain asylum seekers at sea – both countries’ ...

More than 100,000 people disappeared during the civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains disturbing images. In the chaotic aftermath of Tanzania’s disputed presidential election last month, police and gun-wielding men on patrol shot at groups of ...

IZRAA, Syria—Early one morning last December, Dr. Mamdouh Zoubi drove to a farm on the edge of this small town in southern Syria to collect the bodies in a newly found mass grave, one of more than 100 ...

In 2011, a construction project on the grounds of a local college in Osijek, Croatia, halted when archaeologists stumbled upon an unusual cluster of skeletons. The remains—seven in total—lay awkwardly ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A seven-skeleton mass grave tucked inside a well in Croatia offered scholars a chance to analyze the puzzling set remains. A team discovered that all ...

Libya was urged at a U.N. meeting on Tuesday to close detention centres where rights groups say migrants and refugees have been tortured, abused and sometimes killed.

Researchers recently identified the bodies of Roman warriors found stacked in an ancient water well in Croatia, a new study reveals. The bodies were uncovered outside the city walls of Mursa, now ...