Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the 1940s are being returned to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island
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Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway's Sverresborg castle to a passage in a centuries-old Norse text
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Remains of Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine believed to have been found on Everest
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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Did grave robbers plunder battlefields? Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues.
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Arizona governor signs bill approving human composting burials
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Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent
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Families of people buried in pauper's field next to Hinds County Penal Farm near Jackson, MS, are calling for a federal investigation into the burials, which took place without families being notified
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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The tragic story of this famous meteorite and the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him
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Chuuk Lagoon's skull problem
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Several charged with trafficking body parts stolen from Harvard Medical School morgue
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Vikings brought their animals to England, research suggests – experts find evidence at Derbyshire cremation site of horses and dogs originating from the Baltic Shield
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Officials prep for gruesome surprises as Las Vegas lake slowly dries up
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The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there
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Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark
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'Lovers of Modena' skeletal find were both men; researchers quick to reassess their relationship
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Amazon city resorts to mass graves as Brazil COVID-19 deaths soar
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Satellite images show Iran has built mass graves amid coronavirus outbreak
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Researchers used skeletal remains and ancient DNA to reconstruct the burial of a woman who lived in what is now southern Sweden 7,000 years ago
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Sweden to return remains of twenty-five Sámi people after more than half a century – historic event aimed at mending ties with the community
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Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland
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Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting
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First confirmed Denisovan skull piece found
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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
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