In Buddhism, spirits of the uncremated cannot be reincarnated until monks perform proper rites. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

The Lang Pacha ritual offers dignity to the nameless dead and calls attention to the need for better systems to identify those who die after going missing.

Body part found near Eyeries to be sent to the North for further specialist work, including radon carbon dating, in attempt to date it ...

This precocious Penang girl discovered a talent for identifying bones while visiting her father, a forensic anthropologist, ...

Investigators dredged a teenage girl’s bones from a Santa Cruz riverbed in 1995. In Santa Rosa, skeletal remains of a homeless man were found three years later. Part of a skull was pulled from a ditch ...

This instance is the third time in a month that human remains have been found in northern Utah. On March 25, a fisherman ...

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Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull – potentially belonging to an enslaved Caribbean woman – ...