Bogs and wetland are known for hosting some of the world's best preserved human remains, and other organic artefacts, that would usually have been lost to time. A 4,000-YEAR-OLD Bronze Age burial ...

Archaeologists have discovered a second Early Bronze Age tomb inside England’s Dartmoor National Park. Roughly a three-foot-by-three-foot square, the granite and wood box dates to about 1800 BC. Fully ...

The remains of two Bronze Age people found in a long-lost burial chamber by a farmer ploughing a field are revealing their secrets at Scotland’s new facility for storing and researching archaeological ...

An enigmatic structure that likely dates back thousands of years to the Bronze Age has been discovered in an English national park, archaeologists have revealed. The structure appears to be a cist—a ...

Yet another evidence of proto- historic habitation in Malabar has emerged with the discovery of a rare megalithic cist burial monument near Kuitheri in Valayam grama panchayat in Kozhikode district.

AN interesting example of a cist burial is reported from Blaydon-on-Tyne (The Times, Aug. 6). The discovery was made by workmen digging in a sandpit, who uncovered the broken upper slab of the chamber ...

Maya cist burial with typical ceramic offerings - Plate covering the head of the deceased individual and cup placed likely with food. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

The contents of the burial cist have been transported to Wiltshire to undergo micro-excavation An early Bronze Age burial cist containing cremated bones and material dating back 4,000 years has been ...

Illegal quarrying, encroachments, and vandalism are taking a toll on important archaeological sites in the Thenmala and Vencatamala areas on the eastern banks of the Gayathripuzha in Palakkad district ...

Archaeologists say they are finding increasing evidence that a site near Loch Ness was important for burials in the Bronze Age. A second 4,000-year-old grave has been located in an area being ...