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…
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…
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…
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…
These heart-wrenching snaps show the pet cat of a teenage protester who was brutally tortured by Iranian prison guards watching over her grave. Tragic Yalda Aghafazli was seized by security…
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…
A mysterious ancient sun temple dating back 4,500 years has been unearthed by archeologists in an Egyptian cemetery for the pharaohs. Sun temples were built to honour the most powerful…
Archaeologists have unearthed what they say is the earliest use of wheels and wagons in northern Europes. Sets of tracks were uncovered in a cemetery near Kiel, Germany, dating to…
A Turkish professor has been caught raiding a local cemetery with three accomplices in search of treasure they believed was buried there. The incident took place at the cemetery in…
A heartbroken dad who was taking his supposedly dead baby to a cemetery to be buried after hospital doctors told him and his wife that it was stillborn was shocked…