Two small discs of gold, lost in a wet Swiss hollow more than 2,300 years ago, have suddenly become some of the most ...

Lifelong Southold resident Eleanor Lingo was a powerful voice for social justice on the North Fork, and one of her most ...

Obituaries have been around since the Romans, as obitus in Latin means death. The form of memorializing the dead picked up in the 1800s with the rising popularity of newspapers. Obits grew from a ...

Our region’s resting grounds include grave markers that tell remarkable stories about people whose lives impacted our area. Some were famous. Others were simply ordinary people who led extraordinary ...

Crews working for the county along the Pantano Wash have turned up tons of decades-old garbage, including rusted-out vehicle bodies from the 1950s and 1960s and rejected, typo-ridden grave markers.

The discovery of a single grave in a Dutch town has pushed the story of Rome’s northern frontier into sharper focus than any ...

An Inupiaq elder teaches his great-grandson to hunt in rapidly warming Northwest Alaska where thinning ice, shifting caribou ...

A grave packed with 140 amber ornaments has turned up on the western shore of Lake Onega in Karelia. The grave holds a single man whose body was wrapped in red pigment and covered with a glittering ...

Researchers wearing protective clothing and gloves use an electronic nose. Forensic analytical chemist Maiken Ueland (left) and PhD candidate Bridget Thurn use an electronic nose to detect volatiles ...

MIDLAND, Texas — A Midland widow says what should have been a place of peace has instead brought heartbreak after she discovered her late husband’s grave marker was missing. She laid her husband to ...

DALLAS — A Back Mountain soldier killed during the Civil War finally has a memorial marker recognizing his death after more than 160 years. Descendants of Cpl. Nathan Allen will gather at 1 p.m.

Historian David Petry started researching the Santa Barbara Cemetery in 1995 for a 40-page pamphlet on its history. It turned into a coffee-table book titled “The Best Last Place" and provides the ...