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Archaeologists Uncovered A Large Viking Age Burial Ground In Sweden With 139 Graves, Some Shaped Like Ships
More than a hundred graves with several mounds shaped like ships were discovered in a Viking Age cemetery in southwestern ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart
Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, ...
The remains of 28 Civil War soldiers were found in a funeral home's storage. They've now been laid to rest.
The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...
National Catholic Reporter13d
Maryland's first cemetery dedicated to only natural burials is in Baltimore Archdiocese
Father Patrick Carrion, director of Cemetery Management for the Baltimore Archdiocese noted that burying without embalming ...
KPLC8d
Cremated remains of 107 unclaimed bodies laid to rest at Lake Charles cemetery
(KPLC) - It was a quiet and overcast morning at Consolata Cemetery where employees of ... Everybody deserves to have a proper burial at some point,” LeBouef said. Among the boxes of cremated remains, ...
Billings Gazette4d
Eco-death: Green burials now offered in Billings
The average cost of a simple or direct cremation is now $2,476 with ... s largest and oldest continually operating burial ...
Yahoo News13d
Diocese to host Mass, burial for cremated remains
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Catholic Diocese of El Paso will celebrate a rite of committal for cremated remains on All ... at the Mount Carmel Cemetery, 401 S. Zaragoza Road. “Mt. Carmel Cemetery ...
No casket, no chemicals. ‘Green burials’ become more popular in WA
Green burials, where the person is buried in a wicker basket without embalming, can reduce one's ecological footprint after death.
Live Science on MSN8d
Puzzling patchwork skeleton in Belgium contains bones from 5 people spanning 2,500 years
A skeleton buried in a fetal position is actually made of bones from at least five people who lived across a span of 2,500 ...
Placed into the ground in a wicker casket and shroud, you can decompose into nature at Spokane’s green cemetery
Jake’s grave is tucked at the back of the cemetery, past where many passersby may have thought the cemetery ended. Beyond the ...
Cremation rates surge in Italy as cultural norms shift
The number of Italians choosing to be cremated at the end of their lives has surged over the last 30 years as cultural ...
Yahoo13d
Diocese to host Mass, burial for cremated remains
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Catholic Diocese of El Paso will celebrate a rite of committal for cremated remains ... Cemetery, 401 S. Zaragoza Road. “Mt. Carmel Cemetery graciously provided ...