Recent reports of burials of elephant calves are intriguing but it’s impossible to confirm that this was intentional.

A Maya tomb dating back 1,700 years holds funeral offerings, including writings carved on human bones and a jade mask.

Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the Xiongnu people, the world’s first nomadic empire.

An ancient burial site reveals how Etruscans survived the conquest by Rome, suggesting a cultural osmosis not a subordination of one population to another.

Promoting and practicing ethical research that includes the people who live in the area today is as important to the archaeological team as learning more about the lives of the ancient inhabitants.

Ancient human DNA from Sudan reveals new insights into the ancestry and social organization of people who lived more than 1,000 years ago.

Analysis of a 1,300-year-old skeleton found in a tomb in China determined that the man was not a grave robber, but a victim of murder.

The burial of two 1,500-year-old skeletons in an embrace offers a look into the attitudes about love and the afterlife during China's North Wei Dynasty.

Death is a part of life: but environmentally harmful burial practices, overcrowded cemeteries and unaffordable funerals are denying many the right to a good death.

Burials seem to have been uncommon in Africa some 80,000 years ago, although they were widespread in Eurasia.