Norcie’s husband, who died in 2018 at age 99, was a decorated World War II veteran and a descendant of the last slave sold on Staten Island. Intermediate School 61 in New Brighton is named in honor of ...

Antoine “Fats” Domino Jr. was a pianist and songwriter from New Orleans, known for the “boogie-woogie” spin he put on the Rhythm and Blues songs he performed and recorded. His touch ...

The family of folk singer Michael Hurley, known as the "Godfather of freak folk," revealed on Thursday that Hurley has died.

The discovery adds to the ongoing debate surrounding the location of Jesus’ burial. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is agreed by many scholars to be the site of Jesus’ entombment ...

Researchers have found that a prehistoric burial site called Flagstones is one of the earliest known large circular enclosures in Britain. Located in Dorset, Flagstones dates to around 3200 B.C.E ...

when a South Australian grave hunter helped the family locate the burial site. "It was quite emotional to be truthful," said Lynette Van Vondel-Langley, placing a bouquet of yellow flowers next to ...

The presence of pre-Christian artefacts suggests the land changed over time from a quarry, through cultivated land to a burial site over time.

“As the remains are purely male, it can be ruled out that the site of discovery was not connected with a military hospital or similar or that an epidemic was the cause of death. The injuries to ...

Başur Höyük includes what may be some of the region’s earliest known royal burial tombs. However, the finds don’t make much sense given what experts understand of early Mesopotamia.

Archaeological research conducted on the prehistoric Dorset burial site known as Flagstones has revealed it to be the earliest known large circular enclosure in Britain. The monument, in ...