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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Read more about the article Long-Lost Egyptian Sun Temple Found After 4,500 Years
Photo which was taken in an unknown date shows the remains of a mud-brick building in Abu Gorab, Egypt. Preliminary studies indicate that the building may be one of the four lost temples of the Sun from the Fifth Dynasty known through historical sources. (antiquities.gov.eg/Newsflash)

Long-Lost Egyptian Sun Temple Found After 4,500 Years

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…

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Read more about the article Europes Oldest Stone Age Cart Tracks Found
Both dark linear discolorations are the wagon tracks that the researchers discovered in one of the long barrows (LA3) of the Flintbek Sickle, Germany. (Dieter Stoltenberg/Newsflash)

Europes Oldest Stone Age Cart Tracks Found

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…

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Read more about the article Turkish Treasure Hunters Busted While Digging For Loot In Cemetery
Prof Mevlut Gullu, (pictured) one of the four people who made unauthorized excavations to find treasure in an old cemetery in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, was taken into custody. (Newsflash)

Turkish Treasure Hunters Busted While Digging For Loot In Cemetery

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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…

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Read more about the article Dad Taking Dead Baby To Cemetery For Burial After Hospital Docs Said It Was Stillborn Shocked When It Starts Crying
Hasan Sert, father of the baby boy who was claimed to be stillborn in a hospital in Adana, Turkey on 2nd January 2022. (Newsflash)

Dad Taking Dead Baby To Cemetery For Burial After Hospital Docs Said It Was Stillborn Shocked When It Starts Crying

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…

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