Forensic anthropologists can be called in when human remains are discovered.
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Forensic anthropologists are specialized scientists who analyze the skeletal remains of the recently deceased to help authorities figure out who the person was and what happened to them.
People pray over the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster at the abbey of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, near Gower, Mo., in April 2023.
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People are congregating in Missouri after news spread that the exhumed body of a nun had not decayed four years after her death. There is a long history to these claims.
How did Halloween get associated with the spooky?
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A folklorist explains how Halloween continues an ancient Celtic tradition of the celebration of the dead.
Mwai Kibaki.
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He will be remembered as the leader who plunged the country into unmitigated chaos
Former South African President FW de Klerk photographed in Pretoria in 1989.
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FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
Mass cremations in the city of Bengaluru, India, due to the large number of COVID-19 deaths.
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As cremation grounds struggle to keep up with the long line of people dying from COVID-19, age-old customs are being pushed aside.