Washington is expected to become the first state to legalize an environmentally-friendly burial alternative that turns bodies into soil within weeks. A bill allowing “natural organic reduction ...

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 unusual burial at Çemka Höyük—Turkish for “mound by the water”—took place during what archaeologists call the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period, a transitional stage of human ...