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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...