Hidden for nearly 3,000 years, a beautifully preserved canopic jar is discovered in Egypt ... Learn more about ancient Egyptian burial traditions and how they honored the dead.

This wooden box was discovered inside the burial chamber ... that may mention the name of the daughter of pharaoh Ameny Qemau. The box once held the remains of jars containing the internal organs ...

The Plain of Jars in northeast Laos may be related to burial rituals dating back 2,000 ... despite the “plain” in the name. The huge jars form a surreal sight—some are up to ten feet tall ...

Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of ... dignitaries of that name are known from this period, but none of them can be identified as the definitive owner of these canopic jars.

Artefacts discovered in the tomb, including fragments of alabaster jars bearing inscriptions with the names of Thutmose II ... difficulty in determining the burial ground’s ownership was its ...

The soil in these jars represents the lives of countless Americans who never had a proper burial, who met unspeakably ... each with the name of a person who had been lynched.

KENNEDI. >> TROY. THE PAUPER’S CEMETERY IN HINDS COUNTY HAS BEEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR MONTHS, AND IN THAT TIME WE’VE LEARNED OF THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN BURIED THERE WITHOUT THEIR FAMILIES KNOWLEDGE ...