ancient graves

In the expansive woods of northern Finland, just below the Arctic Circle, there's a big field with many "strange" holes or ancient graves. Around sixty years ago, workers found this place called Tainiaro, and ever since people have wondered...

The 10,000-year-old burial of a female infant, the earliest such burial known in Europe, shows that society even in Mesolithic times honored its youngest members and that females were treated the same as males in this regard. Archaeologists at the...

A spectacular Hellenistic-era grave featuring elegant grave goods was uncovered recently in Chieti, Italy as a result of a public works project. The discovery of the burial, estimated to be from around the fourth to third century BC, was the...

According to the Greek Ministry of Culture, archaeologists excavating a site in Ilia, a region in the western Peloponnese, recently discovered eight ancient graves spanning from the second to the fourth century BC. The eight tombs discovered during digs in...

Continuing their search for possible remains of Ben Needham, a toddler that disappeared while holidaying with his parents on the Greek island of Kos in 1991, police officers from South Yorkshire on Tuesday obtained permission to knock down part...

British police hope to find the remains of Ben Needham, the Sheffield toddler that disappeared 25 years ago on the Greek island of Kos, after information was handed to them suggesting that he might have been crushed by a...