Tagged With Burial

For $595, a company will transform a dead person or pet into smooth 'parting stones' that slip into your pocket

Susie Neilson, Dave Mosher

The island where New York City is digging mass graves for the coronavirus pandemic has a 151-year-old history of burials

Shira Feder

A remote Himalayan lake holds up to 800 skeletons from people who died 1,000 years apart. The mystery remains unsolved.

Aylin Woodward

A California company is burying people's ashes under trees instead of gravestones — and thousands have already signed up

Aylin Woodward

Dead bodies litter Mount Everest because it's so dangerous and expensive to get them down

Hilary Brueck

Washington State to become the first to legalise human composting as an alternative to traditional burials

Nicole Einbinder

A warrior-prince's elaborate tomb found near London could be the British equivalent to King Tut, one expert says. Here's what was inside.

Aylin Woodward

Urns filled with human ash washed up on Dutch beaches after falling off a shipping boat

Kelly McLaughlin

Burying dead bodies takes a surprising toll on the environment

Julia Calderone

People have started dissolving loved ones' dead bodies as a greener alternative to burying or cremating them

Lydia Ramsey

The future of death may be your body in these biodegradable eggs

Lydia Ramsey

Archaeologists have confirmed the culprit behind London's Great Plague in a mass grave under a new tube station

Erin Brodwin

The Orlando mass shooter has been buried, and some people are outraged about the location

Mark Abadi

At least 12 bodies were found in a centuries-old burial vault under Washington Square Park

Alex Lockie

5 incredibly creepy ways to get buried that are good for the Earth

Lydia Ramsey

Here's where your dead body is more likely to be cremated than buried

Andy Kiersz

Archaeologists Are Just One Room Away From Discovering Who's Buried In The Huge Amphipolis Tomb

Peter Farquhar