A pall-covered vault containing ashes of the deceased awaits burial before an All Souls’ Day rite of committal in 2019 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, Md. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese ...
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A quiet hillside in southern Scotland has yielded one of the most unsettling archaeological discoveries in recent memory, a ...
Reading Thomas Browne for Halloween. Lately I’ve been driving through the neighborhoods around my Chicago suburb, taking in all varieties of the little Las-Vegas-style productions of ghoulishness and ...
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) - Unclaimed urns containing ashes of the dead are piling up by the thousands across Japan, creating storage headaches and reflecting fraying family ties and economic ...
What does it mean when families ask for a green burial, and how does it differ from other options? A HelloNation article ...
During their work, Guard Archaeology found the urns with the cremated bones of at least eight individuals all placed there in ...
Seven giant funeral urns dating to pre-Columbian times have been found deep in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. A fisher who works in this little-known waterlogged area of the middle Solimões region, ...
Boldly going where no one has gone before, a Michigan company has launched a new line of Star Trek burial urns. Eternal Image, Inc. signed a licensing deal with CBS for the rights to the Star Trek ...
Urns from a crematorium in northern Germany were intended to be used in a burial at sea. But a mishap by a Dutch shipping company meant they washed up on beaches hundreds of miles away from the ...