An article that suggested ropes, not nails, held Jesus to the cross caused a firestorm. (RNS) — At the beginning of Holy Week ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman-era ...

For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

Crews scoured the sand Friday and Saturday after someone reported finding human remains at Junipero Beach. They appear to ...

Rest In Pieces celebrates and preserves these traditions through its collection of Victorian mourning arts. Delicate hair ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A wall made of human bones was just discovered underneath a cathedral in Belgium. Experts estimate that the macabre structure ...

Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us by Paul Koudounaris Thames and Hudson 2015, 208 pages, 9 x 13.3 x 1 inches (hardcover) ...

While pornography has been present throughout human history in various forms, such as ancient erotic art to more modernized ...

Step into the artist’s fantastical “Empathic Universe” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, where everything seems ...