The "skull cup" was found in a cave where ancient humans modified the bones of the dead for thousands of years. But its ...

Ancient humans who buried their dead in caves went back up to a year later to harvest body parts for tools and food. Those are the findings of a new study into the Cueva de los Marmoles, a cave in ...

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A rock was inserted into the mouth of a 10-year-old to keep the deceased child from rising from the grave and spreading malaria, researchers believe. / David Pickel/Stanford University While nails ...

Virgin Galactic’s third commercial spaceflight has taken to the skies—but it wasn’t just carrying a cargo of wealthy investors in search of a taste of microgravity. Two very different ...

A study of bones from a Spanish cave suggests humans might have fashioned tools from the remains of recently deceased community members or relatives Margaret Osborne Daily Correspondent Human bone ...

Climate change isn’t just creating havoc for the living. It’s coming for our dead. Great deluges of rain submerge graves and markers. Swift floods set vaults afloat. Slopes erode in scenic ...

Climate change isn’t just creating havoc for the living. It’s coming for our dead. Great deluges of rain submerge graves and markers. Swift floods set vaults afloat. Slopes erode in scenic hillside ...