A total of four graves from two battles—which took place in 1745 and 1866—contained soldiers from different armies.

Archaeologists stumbled across multiple military graves during highway construction in Central Europe — shedding light on ...

Researchers wearing protective clothing and gloves use an electronic nose. Forensic analytical chemist Maiken Ueland (left) and PhD candidate Bridget Thurn use an electronic nose to detect volatiles ...

DHUMAIR, Syria -The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away ...

Fourteen years after a shallow grave was first uncovered on the edge of a small town, the remains inside have finally been given names. What began as a grim discovery with no clear story has become a ...

Bashundhara Shuvosangho organised a cleanliness drive at a mass grave in Gaibandha’s Palashbari to pay deep respect to the ...

The site of a mass grave in Najha, Syria, which allegedly contains at least 100,000 bodies - Ammar Awad/REUTERS A mass grave in a town outside Damascus contains the bodies of at least 100,000 people, ...

In a chilling reminder of the decades-long anti-Tamil racist war, a new mass grave has been discovered at Sittupatthu in Chemmani, on the outskirts of Jaffna town in northern Sri Lanka. This is one of ...

Experience from around the world has shown that reburial can heal or harm. At Chemmani in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated Jaffna peninsula, the choices made now by the Anura Kumara Dissanayake government ...

Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard a mass grave created to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad.

DHUMAIR, Syria — The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour ...