As the exhumation of another mass grave began on Monday in the Shingal (Sinjar) district of Nineveh province, the families of ...

Archaeologists in Prague have begun exhuming bodies of political prisoners executed by Czechoslovakia's communist regime.

More than 100,000 people disappeared during the 13-year civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new ...

Fourteen years after a shallow grave was first uncovered on the edge of a small town, the remains inside have finally been ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – A team of Swiss investigators visited the West Bank grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Monday to determine how best to dig up remains and extract samples ahead ...

Mexico City began a project this week to exhume and identify thousands of bodies from an area of common graves in a municipal ...

The grave of a residential school victim was exhumed, and the child's remains were returned to her home community.

A mass grave containing nearly 800 infants and young children is being excavated at a former mother and baby home in Ireland. The home was run by Catholic nuns and closed in 1961 after many children ...

A Madras High Court division bench, in July, set aside an order by a single judge directing authorities to permit the deceased's wife to exhume his body and to rebury the remains in the family ...

At 88, Maria Jesus Ezquerra is racing against time to recover the remains of her father, killed at the start of the Spain’s ...

Jose Luis Cubo watched as forensic scientists dug up the body of a man his grandfather had helped to bury at the start of the ...