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Reconstruction of the Neanderthal burial at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, on display at Musée de La Chapelle-aux-Saints, Corrèze, France.

A reconstruction of a Celtic burial mound from the Hallstatt culture of Austria and central Europe in the 1st millennium BCE. (German National Museum, Nuremberg)

A map illustrating the current archeological evidence for the spread of the Scythians in the northern Black Sea region. It shows the distribution of the most notable ‘kurgans’ and monumental burial...

The site where the monks of Glastonbury Abbey supposedly discovered King Arthur and his wife Guinevere’s burial site in 1191 CE. According to the story, Arthur and Guinevere were later...

Dakota scaffold burial, illustration from page 159 of A Further Contribution to the Study of Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, 1881.

Early Scandinavian burial mound marked by stones laid out in a ship-pattern - a practice that was common in Scandinavia from the Bronze Age through the Viking Age. This particular one is situated in Anundshög, Västerås...

Grave goods from the richest burial at Vani (located in the Imereti region of Georgia), dated to about 450 BCE. Grave 11, contained four bodies inside a wooden structure: a woman, distinguished by the richness...

A Celtic bowl with embossed gold leaf decoration from the princely burial at Schwarzenbach, Rhineland, Germany. 5th century BCE. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Jar burials occur in many cultures. In Jordan, the practice of sometimes burying infants in jars appeared in the Chalcolithic period, where the corpse would be placed in the fetal position inside a jar after...

A detail of a painted dromos and dome camera from a tumulus near Aleksandrovo village, Haskovo district, Bulgaria. The dromos has battle scenes while the burial chamber has a hunting scene, unfolded in a circle, and...