The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

A 9,500-year-old funeral pyre uncovered in a rock shelter in northern Malawi is forcing archaeologists to rethink when and ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

At the Malawi site, scientists found that the small adult female’s remains bear marks of manipulation, indicating her body ...

A scientific paper, published in the journal Science Advances, describes a spectacular event that happened about 9,500 years ...

The 9,500-year-old remains were discovered to be of a woman who was between 18 and 60 years old when she died. According to ...

Within Africa, there is evidence of burned human remains at a 7,500-year-old site in Egypt, although these are not associated ...

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed ...

A small-scale model of the intricately constructed throne where the actual cremation will take place for the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October 2017. Amanda Mustard Construction of the royal pyre ...

An elderly Hindu man has won the right to be cremated on a traditional funeral pyre in Britain after a ruling by the Court of Appeal in London. Davender Ghai, who moved to Britain from Kenya in 1958 ...

A coffin burns on a funeral pyre, as relatives wail their grief. It looks like a scene from the banks of the Ganges but this was a field in Northumberland yesterday afternoon. The traditional Hindu ...