The peculiar container – a casket made entirely of mushrooms – held the body of Mark Ancker, who died of a heart attack last ...

There were also brick burial vaults found with the site of the newer church ... No previous archaeological investigations had taken place at the site, so the size and form of the medieval church were ...

It dated back to the Middle Ages. The excavators found “limestone and brick foundations, along with around 83 brick-lined burial vaults both within the church itself and in the associated burial ...

It dated back to the Middle Ages. The excavators found "limestone and brick foundations, along with around 83 brick-lined burial vaults both within the church itself and in the associated burial ...

No sediment contrast or halo is evident near this bone, which was likely isolated at the time of burial in this position ... For example, a partial cranial vault is in place, many ribs are represented ...

biodegradable materials and no burial vault, to affect conservation, using the receipts from green burial for site restoration and acquiring more conserved land,” Furniss said. “That really ...

And burial often uses exotic wood or metal caskets and concrete vaults. Cremation ... soldiers were found in 1974 contain some 8000 life-size terracotta soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses ...

Archaeologists have unveiled a 400-year-old burial vault after following a long-lost staircase. The staircase was found in the Church of Saint Philibert in Dijon, France. The Romanesque church ...

Restoration efforts at the Church of Saint Philibert in France led to the discovery of a forgotten staircase and a 400-year-old burial vault. The archaeological finds didn’t stop there ...

Hoffner published an essay about her father’s natural burial at a wooded sanctuary, comparing it to a cousin’s traditional funeral “in a painted casket in a concrete vault under an Astroturf ...

The reuse of tomb equipment was common in this period, including coffins and burial vaults, so this in itself is not unusual. In 2015, Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves argued that these objects ...

The job of weaving blankets is laborious, which is why the finished product can cost upwards of $2,000, depending on the size ... a natural burial, absent embalming or concrete vaults.