For more than six months, the Jewish community in Vinnytsia ... where he lay for a long time. His funeral was held on Friday afternoon, with the community accompanying him in an emotional ceremony ...

The Shroud of Turin is a centuries-old linen cloth bearing the image of a crucified man. It is the most studied artefact in human history. Millions of people believe it to be the burial cloth that ...

“Beta, do you know where the burial is happening?” asked Salma Ansari, a woman in her late 60s. She was talking about late tabla maestro Zakir Hussain who breathed his last in a hospital in San ...

On the table the body is completely dried and then dressed in tachrichim, traditional Jewish burial shrouds. The shrouds have no pockets and their only fasteners are drawstrings on the trousers ...

A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the ...

“So, you lay the shroud in the coffin and put the remains on top ... death “tragic,” but said Jewish tradition didn’t preclude or alter a typical Jewish burial. The words he spoke graveside, he said, ...

The professor was among a handful of academics who received videos and other evidence from anonymous sources as part of a yearlong investigation into the burial sites. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Vall ...

In a surprising discovery, a medieval silk seal bag from the reign of King Henry III has emerged as a ‘perfect match’ to the silk cloth used to wrap the body of Emperor Charlemagne, when his ...

Billionaire brothers have triggered an uproar after they submitted plans for a 45-acre burial site which could become Britain's biggest Muslim cemetery. Images show the huge scale of the proposed ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "unique" ancient Roman drinking vessel mysteriously embedded in an Anglo-Saxon burial from the early 6th century A.D. The burial is one of 49 that were interred ...

The location of the final resting place of a group of slaves once owned by a former president has finally been found. At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President ...

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