Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

Southfield emergency medical personnel determined the 20-year-old was dead, only for a funeral home worker to unzip a body ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...

A former Minnesota funeral director has been charged with the post-death decapitation of a woman whose skull was found by Boy Scouts in western Wisconsin woods nearly a quarter-century ago. Benjamin ...

A macabre investigation is underway in southeastern North Carolina, after one body too many showed up at funeral home. Among the many mysteries in the case is the identity of the dead woman – and how ...

The body was discovered inside a funeral home in the 3800 block of Raeford Road in Fayetteville, police said. Maps show Cunningham Mortuary & Cremation is located at ...

Fayetteville police are seeking the public's help to identify a deceased elderly woman. Her body was left at a Raeford Road funeral home in May without any accompanying paperwork. The woman is ...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – The body of a U.S. Air Force veteran has remained at a Kissimmee funeral home for more than a month, as a government shutdown leaves his caregiver struggling to secure funeral ...

A California family was horrified to find a stranger’s body on display at a memorial service for their loved one — and the ordeal was enough to cause a relative to suffer a heart attack in the chapel, ...