Standing atop a small dune deep in the Sahara Desert, a team of scientists stared at a freshly opened grave. Three human skeletons lay on their sides, as though they’d drifted off to sleep in ...

The town’s graveyard was on the north side of the church. A painting of Dunfermline Abbey by artist Adam Westwood (Image: Supplied) Usually, the south side of a church was favoured for burials but at ...

Within the abbey are buried thousands of illustrious dead: royals, nobles, writers, musicians, scientists, politicians—the great Britons of Great Britain. But it is the living, the abbey’s 275 ...

The monks of Mepkin Abbey have unveiled a garden space honoring enslaved buried in unmarked graves on their South Carolina ...

PARIS (AP) — Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer ...

Hollifield said after this scary ordeal, she plans to be more weather-aware. Nocturnal tornadoes, such as the London tornado, can be more deadly because they hit when people are least prepared. The ...

Family of the late actress Monalisa Stephen has announced she will be buried Thursday, May 22, 2025. A statement posted on her Instagram page on Wednesday noted that the private interment would ...

Fan-favourite Matthew Goode will be missing from the third Downton Abbey film - and according to the actor, “it’s a good thing.” Goode, who played Lady Mary Crawley’s race-car driving husband Henry ...

A representative for Morrison’s estate told Rolling Stone they were “happy to hear the news,” adding, “Obviously it’s a piece of history, and one Jim’s family wanted there on his grave, so it’s ...

HAVING survived fires in the 14th and 20th centuries, the dissolution of the monasteries, and acts of destruction during the Commonwealth, Selby Abbey has proved its resilience once again in securing ...

Anyone fascinated by the layered accretions of British history—or eager to learn what might be buried within those layers—would find it an attractive spot. English place-names, most of which ...

A sculpture that was stolen from atop a music legend’s grave in 1988 has been found. French police happened to stumble across the lost bust of iconic Doors frontman Jim Morrison while carrying ...