2 bodies exhumed from Viking grave
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Archaeologists opened a Viking burial mound on Monday, seeking to learn more about two women &#151; possibly a queen and a princess &#151; laid to rest there 1,173 years ago.
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MENDEN-BARGE, Germany  - German authorities have unearthed the remains of 51 people, many of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
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Forensic experts said on Monday they had found the remains of about 60 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.
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The skeletal remains of 14 people believed to be victims of right-wing paramilitaries have been unearthed in a mass grave in southwest Colombia, authorities said Friday.
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British archaeologists said on Tuesday they had excavated an "extremely important" burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords, spears, jewelry, fire-making materials and riding gear.
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Forensic experts have found 114  complete bodies and 159 body parts in a mass grave in the  northern town of Brcko, a missing persons official said on  Tuesday.
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Forensic science experts in Kenya have exhumed the body of a pregnant teenage girl who allegedly died after being raped by British troops in a remote area of the country nine years ago.
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Bodies being exhumed as part of an investigation into seven deaths at a care home will be checked for signs of drugs.
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Archaeologists in northwestern England have found a burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords, spears, jewelry, fire-making materials and riding equipment, officials said Monday.
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The bodies of more than 1,000 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have been exhumed from the largest mass grave found to date in Bosnia-Herzegovina, forensic experts said Thursday.
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"The killings that took place here have no comparison in Europe. In two months after the war, more people were killed here than in the four years of war"  After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two. via Scotsman.com News
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Investigators have exhumed the remains of 14 victims of paramilitary violence buried in a municipal cemetery in northern Colombia without proper funerals, authorities said Tuesday.
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The body of a Kenyan girl, who died after being allegedly raped by British soldiers, has been exhumed by investigators, the BBC reported Saturday.
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The body of a elderly woman is to be exhumed by police investigating seven deaths at a care home in Somerset.
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Forensics experts said today they had exhumed 405 bodies from a mass grave, making it the second-largest such site found in Bosnia since the end of the 1992-95 war.
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Archaeologists in Italy unearth two skeletons thought to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old, locked in an embrace.
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Police and federal agents found remains of two people believed to be former Mafia captains after expanding excavation work at a Queens lot reportedly used by a New York crime family, authorities said.