Three human skulls lie in a row on a disk of black cloth – not the bones themselves, but small wooden tokens representing an uncomfortable part of the World Museum’s collection of human remains. This ...

The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation after the discovery of dozens of bodies and evidence of human ...

United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has expressed shock after the revelation of gross human rights violations at ...

Thousands of well-preserved human bodies have been found in northern Europe’s peat bogs, such as this one at Store Hjøllund in central Denmark. Cool temperatures, plants like sphagnum moss ...

Extracting proteins from organs that survived thousands of years offers fresh insight into ancient health, diet, and daily ...

A new Oxford method retrieves proteins from ancient soft tissue, uncovering brain health markers and expanding knowledge of ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said on Wednesday he was shocked by revelations of gross human rights violations uncovered at official and unofficial detention facilities run by ...

Tech oligarchs’ wildest visions of tomorrow amount to a modern secular theology that is both mesmerizing and, in his view, ...

Lawmakers are considering whether to allow the composting of human remains that would break down into a soil-like product that could be spread in plant beds or elsewhere in nature.

Herodotus, often called the Father of History, also possessed the mindset and utilized the methods of a modern social ...

India joined the global community in observing World Environment Day on Thursday, 5 June, with mass tree plantations, ...