As of March 2026, Israeli authorities have been retaining the bodies of prisoners who die while serving sentences, holding them until the official sentence period is completed. This polic...
Massacre in Nigerian Kwara State After Militant Attack On February 5, 2026, Nigerian authorities and humanitarian organisations reported that at least 162 people were killed in...
Palestinian authorities report bodies returned with missing organs and signs of abuse On October 17, 2025, officials in the Gaza Strip reported that the bodies of Palestinian detainees a...
Mother Waits 36 Years for Israel to Return Son’s Body The article describes the story of a Palestinian mother who waited 36 years for Israel to return the body of her son, who was k...
An Israeli woman has been arrested after police alleged she hid the death of her 93-year-old mother in order to continue receiving financial benefits. Authorities say the elderly woman, a...
Ivana Trump, the first wife of former United States President Donald Trump, died on July 14, 2022, at the age of 73 in New York City. Authorities reported that she died after sustaining i...
Gilgamesh narratives resurface amid 2003 Iraq war and Euphrates region focus In April 2003, during the early phase of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, international media reporte...
Two Israeli soldiers were arrested after allegedly ordering a bulldozer to bury four Palestinian youths in piles of dirt following a protest in the West Bank, according to military offici...
On February 4, 1982, authorities in Los Angeles County discovered thousands of preserved human fetuses inside a repossessed storage container connected to a defunct pathology laboratory. ...
The resurrection of Jesus Christ marks a central event in Christian belief, symbolizing his victory over death. Following his crucifixion, accounts describe Jesus rising from the dead on ...
The Fayum portrait tradition represents a unique blend of Egyptian and Greco-Roman artistic styles. These funerary portraits were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies, dating p...
30 BCE — Ancient writers indicate that Cleopatra and Mark Antony were buried together, but their burial place has never been securely identified. Archaeologists have explored several poss...
c. 1000–500 BCE — Iron Age communities later identified by Greek and Roman writers as Illyrian become visible across much of the western Balkans. Illyrians were not one centralized nation...
c. 3000–1100 BCE — Fortified settlements, metallurgy, regional trade and tumulus burial traditions develop across the western Balkans. Social differences become increasingly visible in gr...
c. 4000–3100 BCE — Powerful communities develop across Upper Egypt during the Naqada periods. Trade expands, elite burials become richer and political centers such as Hierakonpolis gain i...
c. 4400–4000 BCE — Communities in Upper Egypt produce distinctive pottery, stone tools and increasingly elaborate burials. Grave goods suggest growing differences in wealth and social sta...