Burial

Captain Matthew Flinders will be reburied in the English village where he was born in 1814, with Australian guests among those marking the event.

Karen Daniels' father died in 2018 at the age of 80. His wishes were that he be cremated and laid to rest near his daughter, Rhonda. She died in 2012.

The condition of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster's body has 'generated widespread interest and raised important questions'

The burial site of a young child who lived 8000 years ago has been discovered in Eastern Finland, providing a rare glimpse into how Stone Age humans treated their deceased.

The soon-to-be Western Sydney Cemetery Complex is a 73-hectare block of land on Greendale Road in Wallacia.

Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's remains was one of World War II's biggest mysteries.

Stephen Sedrak hoped the adjacent burial plots he bought at Fawkner cemetery would be a special place where future generations could remember the family.

Deep within the tomb archeologists found a four metre papyrus that includes spells from the Book of the Dead.

New evidence of funerary behavior could shed light on the cognitive abilities and social customs of Neanderthals.

A suburban Detroit fire chief said Wednesday that he still can't explain why a 20-year-old woman declared dead at her home was discovered alive hours later at a funeral home.

'Dead' woman opens her eyes at funeral home moments before being embalmed

Skeletal remains believed to be an Iron Age execution victim have been found outside London.

A newborn baby, found buried alive in India's north, may not survive as originally thought.

An underground chamber discovered accidentally by road workers appears to be the site of the earliest Christian royal burial ever found in Britain.

37 South Australian ancestral remains in possession of the Natural History Museum in London have been handed over to community representatives for burial.

NZ’s Police commissioner has called in experts from Australia to help speed up the process of formal identification.

A new Jewish section in the world’s largest 19th-century cemetery in Sydney will be consecrated today amid fears burial space is running out.

A centuries old skull of an infant believed to have been part of a mystery polar civilisation has been uncovered by archaeologists above the Arctic Circle.