Burial and cremation come with some pretty major environmental problems. Both involve huge amounts of energy, resources and ...
Scotland is set to introduce water cremation — a softer, greener alternative to traditional funerals. Discover how the process works and when ...
Controversial proposal for water cremation facility next to the Żabbar cemetery suspended at the applicant’s request, as ...
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UK to Introduce Controversial 'Boil In A Bag' Cremation: Would You Opt For This Liquified Alternative?
Unconventional 'boil in a bag' funerals in which human bodies are liquified and disposed of in wastewater systems could be coming to the UK. A consultation of funerary methods by the Law Commission ...
The "fancy grave goods" confirmed what they had already suspected thanks to the horse - it was a high status burial. These ...
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This 9,500-year-old burial is the oldest cremation ever found in Africa and it involved an enormous fire seen for miles
Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, people’s shadows ...
THE warped world of body brokers, where people who acquire and sell human cadavers, has become a multi-million-pound industry fuelled by an obsession with the dead. Private companies have been ...
AFTER a long day in the office Stephanie Salvilla couldn’t wait to pick up her children and get home. Slipping behind the ...
An emergency intervention on the southern bank of the Rafina stream has yielded a discovery of the first order for understanding the complex funerary rites and social organization of the earliest ...
The acidic sand of the Suffolk coast has preserved not bones, but shadows; spectral silhouettes that delineate with ...
Photo by DEAD GOOD LEGACIES/Sarah Johnson Photography on Unsplash All of us, sooner or later, will need to make a decision about the final resting ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in what is now northern Malawi, ...
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