Mysterious bags of fish and pictures were found in a freshly dug grave. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

SAN ANTONIO, TX -- A Texas pallbearer says he was seriously hurt after he fell into a grave and the coffin he was helping to carry crashed on top of him. The injured pallbearer, Joseph Rivas, blamed the funeral home for the accident, which happened last February. picked by mutil8or 2 years ago

The grave of a royal guard of the 26th dynasty, which dates back to about 2,500 years ago, was unearthed by an Egyptian-Czech archaeological mission in the south of Cairo. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

BERLIN (Reuters) - A vicar in Germany who had the novel idea of helping parishioners escape the stresses and strains of daily life by letting them lie in an open grave was upset when intrusive journalists spoiled the atmosphere.

Those wacky Germans again... picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

Harei village, Shingo, Japan, is said to be the grave of Jesus when he died in the village after escaping Roman persecutors in Golgotha, Israel. According to the myth, in Japan his job was as a carpenter and he made his own cross for the grave at the age of 107. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

A mother and daughter made a grave discovery while doing a spot of gardening after they unearthed a 200-year-old body at their home in Devon. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

The preferred way of re-using graves would be a doubledecker-style approach, by lifting existing remains, deepening the grave and laying a new coffin on top. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A skeleton exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the "vampires" widely referred to in contemporary documents. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

An amateur paleontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe's largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Roadworks in southern Greece have unearthed a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be well over 3,000 years old and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Colombian authorities have uncovered the mass graves of more than 100 people believed to have been killed during the country's long-running civil conflict. picked by KingKoopa 3 years ago

A Cookeville, Tenn., man has been sentenced by a judge to make four visits in the next year to the grave of an 18-year-old girl who was killed in a wreck the night he provided her alcohol. picked by civicracer18c1 3 years ago

Hundreds of people are flocking to a remote village in Jharkhand to catch a glimpse of an old man who has spent six years lying inside his own grave waiting to die as he mourns for his wife. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A US forensics expert took the stand in Saddam Hussein's trial for genocide against ethnic Kurds to tell in grim detail how he unearthed the remains of 27 people from a mass grave in northern Iraq. picked by teaya21 3 years ago

Three men who dug up corpse of 20-year-old woman to have sex with the body only facing theft charges. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

No embalmed bodies will be allowed in this area, which has room for 400. Only untreated wood and biodegradable shrouds can be used. picked by Bornbad 12 months ago

Archaeologists from the Institute of Prehistory and Early History of the University of Vienna have found an amulet inscribed with a Jewish prayer in a Roman child’s grave dating back to the 3rd century CE at a burial ground in the Austrian town of Halbturn. This amulet shows that people of Jewish faith lived in what is today Austria since the Roman Empire. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Historical Nazi 'footprints' are found in grave markers, photos in archives and at the remains of dwellings. picked by SkandarGraun 1 year ago

She is German? Ya don't say... picked by muppet 2 years ago

For a thousand years they have lain side by side in a rough earth grave, one throwing a skeletal arm across the other. Believed to be Saxon warriors, they are thought to have died together and been buried together as brothers in arms. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago