Controversial proposal for water cremation facility next to the Żabbar cemetery suspended at the applicant’s request, as ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A trend is emerging in end-of-life decisions: More families are choosing cremation rather than a traditional burial. In the last 15 years, the number of cremations has nearly doubled to ...

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

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

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

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

Archaeologists discover human remains by pyre in recent excavation in Malawi, suggesting hunter gatherer societies attributed ...