At the Malawi site, scientists found that the small adult female’s remains bear marks of manipulation, indicating her body ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

Although the oldest burned human remains date back to 40,000 years old at Lake Mungo, Australia, it lacks any signs of a pyre ...

Within Africa, there is evidence of burned human remains at a 7,500-year-old site in Egypt, although these are not associated ...

A scientific paper, published in the journal Science Advances, describes a spectacular event that happened about 9,500 years ...

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed ...

The 9,500-year-old remains were discovered to be of a woman who was between 18 and 60 years old when she died. According to ...

An elderly Hindu man has won the right to be cremated on a traditional funeral pyre in Britain after a ruling by the Court of Appeal in London. Davender Ghai, who moved to Britain from Kenya in 1958 ...

NEW DELHI - An Indian woman threw herself on her husband's funeral pyre, killing herself in line with an old Hindu custom that persists in rural pockets of India despite a nearly two-century ban on ...

In an example of Hindu-Muslim unity, the funeral pyre of a Hindu man was taken to the crematorium by a Muslim man and his ...

A coffin burns on a funeral pyre, as relatives wail their grief. It looks like a scene from the banks of the Ganges but this was a field in Northumberland yesterday afternoon. The traditional Hindu ...