On a warm January morning in Thailand's western Kanchanaburi province, Silva Kumar oversaw the cremation of 106 skulls and bones — remains of Tamil laborers who died 80 years ago while constructing a ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Based on the true story of Marguerite de La Rocque’s sojourn on an island near modern Quebec, Allegra Goodman’s novel takes ...

In contrast, the third Ullastret skull belonged to an outsider and was found in a pit, which “could align with the hypothesis that the [severed] heads of “enemies” were brought as a trophy, and stored ...

Thousands of bodies may be unearthed from Gaza’s ruins, the authorities say. Families with missing loved ones face fresh ...