In what once functioned as an ancient Roman city focused on trade and thermal baths in the south of France, archaeologists ...

A rchaeologists excavating in the French Riviera have uncovered a massive Roman cremation cemetery. Careful work at the site ...

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Hundreds of black-clad mourners have lined the streets of central Bangkok at the start of an extravagant five-day funeral for Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died over a year ago. For millions ...

A small-scale model of the intricately constructed throne where the actual cremation will take place for the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in October 2017. Amanda Mustard Construction of the royal pyre ...

At 1:05 a.m. on a crisp February morning in Boulder, 52-year-old Sheila Luna laid her head back on the hospital bed in her moonlit living room, closed her eyes and took her last breath. Her death did ...

CRESTONE, Colo. – Belinda Ellis' farewell went as she wanted. One by one, her family placed juniper boughs and logs about her body, covered in red cloth atop a rectangular steel grate inside a ...

CRESTONE, Colo. (AP) - Belinda Ellis' farewell went as she wanted. One by one, her family placed juniper boughs and logs about her body, covered in red cloth atop a rectangular steel grate inside a ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will begin building the funeral pyre for late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last month at the age of 88, next year, the government said on Monday, adding 8,000 people ...

After a controversy over tyres and mattresses being used on a funeral pyre at the Odhav municipal crematorium, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has introduced a three-level monitoring system ...

A man in Jaipur delayed his mother's cremation over silver bangles. He lay on the pyre, demanding his mother's jewellery. Villagers and family attempted to persuade him to move, but failed. A man in ...