The mysterious Plain of Jars in northern Laos — a landscape dotted with massive stone jars hewn from sandstone thousands of years ago — was likely used as a burial site for much longer than ...

New research published in PLOS One in March shows that these jars were used as burial sites. And while the jars themselves could be more than 3,000 years old, analysis of human remains suggest ...

In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold human organs that were removed during the mummification ...

The burial jars of Kulaman Plateau are unique in that they are carved out of limestone; in contrast, most ancient jars found in other areas of the Philippines are made of clay. The Dulangan Manobo, ...

The burial was cut into one of the fortress's mudbrick walls and contained an infant likely less than a year old. The infant's body had been placed inside a ceramic storage jar or pot.

A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb ...

The burial and grain jars were of Egyptian origin. In this article we present an updated inventory of Muslim jar burials from historical Palestine. When analyzed against this database, the Zarnūqa ...

A nearly 3,000-year-old canopic jar is discovered in an Egyptian tomb. Learn more about these ancient burial traditions. Publish Date: 3/19/25 Topic: Ancient Worlds Ancient Worlds NOVA ...

Phnom Pel, Cambodia – Over a hundred "burial jars" and a dozen coffins arranged on a ledge in an remote Cambodian jungle have for centuries held the bones – and secrets – of mysterious people who ...