Though archaeologists rank the exquisite necropolises at Myra in Turkey as classics of Lycian culture, the site's most beautiful elements are some of its touching, humanizing details.

Menorca is home to a quite extraordinary collection of ancient remains found nowhere else on earth – proof that people have ...

Scientists led by the Sapienza University of Rome analyzed ancient DNA from over 100 skeletons found in different ...

29COM 7B.77 - Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia (Italy) 2004 28COM 14B.43 - Nominations of Cultural Properties to the World Heritage List (Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

The cemetery—thought to date to the 1st-3rd centuries A.D.—is one of the largest "Gallo-Roman" necropolises dedicated to infants and stillborn babies that have been excavated in France to date.

Located in Marliens, a commune in eastern France, the site has a large bowtie-shaped structure, whose middle sports a circular construction measuring 36 feet (11 meters) in diameter.

Millions of mummified ibis and birds of prey, sacrificed to the Egyptian gods Horus, Ra or Thoth, have been discovered in the necropolises of the Nile Valley. Such a quantity of mummified birds ...

6,000 years ago, men and women had equal access to resources A UNIGE team shows that all the people who lived and were buried in Barmaz necropolises (Switzerland) during the Neolithic period had ...