Alkaline hydrolysis relies on water and alkaline chemicals to turn a dead body into bone fragments and a neutral effluent.

As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab ...

Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests.

Have you ever heard of human composting? A Utah lawmaker has introduced a bill during the current legislative session that ...

An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

The recent demise of actor Farooq Sheikh prompts me to share with you a dialogue from the film Saath Saath which I must have repeated a zillion times in my talks Farooq Sheikh was the main protagonist ...