Discovery of a uniquely preserved Roman-period burial, just meters from Israel’s Route 40, adds a rare wooden coffin to the ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Howell Township is facing a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by a New Jersey corporation after the zoning board denied ...

Is it a brilliant medieval forgery? Or the holiest of relics, the burial shroud of Jesus? The question seemed to have been settled in 1988, when radiocarbon dating tests performed by independent ...

AN ANCIENT sword engraved with swastikas and forged ... which archaeologists believe could have come from the solder's clothes, a shroud or a caseCredit: Flore Giraud, INRAP The sword adorned ...

In his study, Dr. Graur reviewed 125 images of the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced "Noot"), found among 555 ancient Egyptian coffins ... the ceiling of the burial chamber is split between the Book ...

The ancient Jewish cemetery in the Żerków area ... "With deep sorrow, we announce a serious case of grave desecration at a historic Jewish burial site," read an official announcement from ...

He noted that a few decades after the Second Temple’s destruction, the menorah became the distinct symbol of the Jewish people ... The post Ancient stone capital with menorah to go on display ...

An ancient woman’s recently discovered ... which functioned as a burial site for prominent community members. In 2016, archeologists discovered the remains of a high society individual later ...

I think of the movie as something of a drama. In it, a start-up invents a high-tech burial shroud that allows the living to monitor their loved ones’ corpses. Where did that idea come from?

And just as the Jews of the Talmud adopted this practice for themselves, today Jews who opt for traditional burial are still buried in plain white linen shrouds. In a popular guidebook for Jewish ...

The linen cloth, believed by some to be the burial shroud of Jesus, contains a faint yet anatomically detailed image of a crucified man. The image doesn’t penetrate the fabric and behaves unlike ...