Read more about the article Ancient Graveyard With Bodies Wrapped In Tree Bark Found Beneath Burned Down Church
Photo shows a burial in a birch bark bundle on the territory of the burnt Uspenskaya church in Kondopoga, Republic of Karelia, Russia, undated. Archaeologists discovered an intact necropolis. (Institute of Archeology of RAS/Newsflash)

Ancient Graveyard With Bodies Wrapped In Tree Bark Found Beneath Burned Down Church

An ancient graveyard with bodies buried wrapped in ritual birch bark has been unearthed by archaeologists under a burned-down church in Russia. The cemetery, which dates back to the 1100s,…

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Read more about the article Court Tells Grieving Parents To Remove ‘Flashy’ Statue Of Son From His Grave
Image shows the Stuttgart Administrative Court, Germany, undated photo. It ruled that a golden statue of deceased Ricardo Schott, 25, needs to be removed from the cemetery. (Newsflash)

Court Tells Grieving Parents To Remove ‘Flashy’ Statue Of Son From His Grave

Heartbroken parents who put an orange statue of their dead son on his grave have been ordered to take it down by judges in Germany because it is 'too flashy'.…

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Read more about the article Outrage As Schoolgirl Aged 13 Giggles As She Walks Around Cemetery With Cross From Grave
A schoolgirl, 13, walks holding a grave cross at cemetery in Otradnoye, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, undated. Ekaterina Mizulina, the head of the Safe Internet League, asked police to investigate. (CEN)

Outrage As Schoolgirl Aged 13 Giggles As She Walks Around Cemetery With Cross From Grave

Teen girl goes for a walk around a cemetery with a deceased person's tombstone cross as she and her pal giggle and laugh. The clip of the seventh-grader from the…

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Read more about the article Veg Plots For Rent At Beet-hoven’s Cemetery
Image shows the grave of Ludwig van Beethoven, in the city of Vienna, Austria, undated photo. Austrian citizens will be able to grow vegetables at the cemetery. (Newsflash)

Veg Plots For Rent At Beet-hoven’s Cemetery

Burial officials in Austria are opening up unused graves in cemeteries where gardeners can grow organic veg alongside the dearly departed. The bizarre plan means anyone with a burial plot…

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Read more about the article Fury Over Hundreds Of Human Skeletons Dumped In Graveyard
Picture shows the human remains in the ossuary in Seville, Spain, undated. A candidate for Mayor of Seville, Jose Luis Sanz, denounced the abandonment of these bones, which are in an area that can be accessed without any impediment. (Newsflash)

Fury Over Hundreds Of Human Skeletons Dumped In Graveyard

Horrifying images of hundreds of human skeletons apparently illegally dumped in a cemetery are to be investigated by prosecutors in Spain. The grim discovery was close to a broken ossuary…

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Read more about the article Germans Increasingly Send Their Deceased’s Ashes To Switzerland To Get Around Burial-Law Red Tape
Image shows undertaker Berto Biaggi, undated photo. He owns a burial service company in the municipality of Gipf-Oberfrick, canton of Aargau, Switzerland. (Newsflash)

Germans Increasingly Send Their Deceased’s Ashes To Switzerland To Get Around Burial-Law Red Tape

Undertakers have revealed that the number of Germans asking for their deceased loved ones' ashes to be sent to Switzerland has dramatically increased in the past 10 years. Swiss funeral…

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Read more about the article Archaeologists Unearth 21 Human Skeletons In Medieval Cemetery
Picture shows some of the skeletons found, in Chapultepec, Mexico, undated. They found located 21 skeletons, some with burials in accordance with the Catholic tradition and others still preserved the Mesoamerican rites. (INAH/Newsflash)

Archaeologists Unearth 21 Human Skeletons In Medieval Cemetery

Archaeologists in Mexico made an astonishing discovery when they unearthed a total of 21 human remains in a medieval cemetery. The skeletons, some of which are almost perfectly preserved, were…

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Read more about the article Balkan Cemetery Studies Reveal High Prehistoric Mortality Rate
Picture shows detail from tomb 14 with a necklace of bronze pendants (8th-7th century BC), undated. The discovery has been made at the Kopilo site in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (ÖAW- ÖAI, M. Gavranovic/Newsflash)

Balkan Cemetery Studies Reveal High Prehistoric Mortality Rate

A necropolis found in Bosnia and Herzegovina has revealed a high mortality rate in the prehistoric period after archaeologists discovered 46 graves and 53 individuals from the Bronze and Iron…

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