For years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints frowned upon cremation, insisting that burial was theologically ...

An ebony figurine, found in the Christian burial of a child, "shows a very detailed face and torso of a male figure, with typical African features," the researchers wrote in the study.

This was a typical Christian burial in the Holy Land during the Roman-Byzantine period. Figures of animal bone were common grave goods at the time, but the origin of the miniature ebony busts that ...

A fact-finding report documents cases of ‘denial of rights of the deceased’ by Hindu mobs in the eastern state ...