Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of over a dozen humans in Peru dated to around 400BC, buried face down with their hands tied behind their backs, revealing insights about strange ancient ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a strange Viking Age grave in Norway with scallop shells covering the mouth of the ...

Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed a strange burial site at a pre-Incan temple dedicated to a water cult dating back to about 3,800 years, a discovery they say could “redefine” the understanding of ...

Archaeologists in Scotland have unearthed evidence of a “mysterious mass burial” dating back to the Bronze Age, which tells of a “horrible event." ...

Archaeologists working near Cambridge, England, have discovered the remains of a young girl who lived sometime during the 8th or 9th century. Unusually for the time, she was buried face down, a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The unusual Ottoman-era grave was found in 2022 at the edge of an archaeological site near Rahat ...

Archaeologists have discovered an unusual burial in Germany indicating that prehistoric people were afraid of the deceased returning to life. The burial can be described as a "revenant" grave, one of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman-era cemetery in England with the unique burial of a “high-status individual” encased in liquid gypsum at its centre. Researchers found that the central grave ...

In 2022, a team of archaeologists unearthed a strange burial in the Polish village of Pień. Residents of the rural Polish town of Pień have long avoided a particular hill in the village – and in 2022, ...

A quiet hillside in southern Scotland has yielded one of the most unsettling archaeological discoveries in recent memory, a ...

It’s extremely rare to find so many intact remains from the Viking era. Experts with the Museum Odense spent the last six months excavating the site near the small village of Åsum, on the island of ...