Burial

A pale stone figurine head with simplified facial features and carved parallel lines suggesting hair, shown against a dark blue background.

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A history of the world in 7 faces: from Tutankhamun to the Virgin Mary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A collage featuring portraits of several historical figures linked to infamous crimes, including a Victorian woman at the center, a mustached man in period clothing, a Renaissance-era woman in ornate dress, and another older figure in a hat. Behind them are a chalk-style body outline on a blue textured background and an old multi‑story building with arched windows

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History’s most notorious crime scenes: from Lizzie Borden’s lair to HH Holmes’s ‘murder castle’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Medieval vampire slayers: why did our ancestors dig up and dismember the dead?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman with blonde hair and wearing a navy T shirt stands looking up towards the top left of the image. She has a large white earring and stands in front of some Roman ruins

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Alice Roberts: “Christianity didn’t invent itself as an empire from nothing: it adapted existing Roman structures”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

an illustration of a pale blue gravestone with several small drawings on it, including a moon, a heart, a ring and some flowers. Around the gravestone there are flowers and it is set against a bright blue background

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Why we should be better about talking about death, with Dr Helen Gittos. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dramatic view of the sun setting over a megalithic tomb and stone circle. (Dreamstime)

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Egypt’s lost tombs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester)

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Richard III reburial special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Victorian burials and the history of psychology. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.