Forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, and forensic science in the news.
A coffin with the skeletal remains of the ‘Dark Countess’, who some suspect is Marie Thérèse Charlotte, was reburied after a ceremony in Hildburghausen, Germany. You can see the exclusive photo here. Hopefully we’ll get more photos and news from… Read More ›
Let’s go back to the beginning… At the center of this debate is the mummified head that some believe belongs to French King Henry IV (1553-1610). The beloved king from the House of Bourbon was assassinated by a religious fanatic… Read More ›
Last week the WaPo reported that the remains of 360 people were exhumed at the Tomasica mass grave near the northern town of Prijedor, 162 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The number is expected to increase and… Read More ›
Novinite reports that archaeologists working near the town of Marten in northern Bulgaria have discovered hundreds of ancient graves that span centuries. Archaeologists working on emergency excavations in the gas pipeline route between Bulgaria and Romania have unearthed a necropolis with 376 graves. Experts believe these graves are from different… Read More ›
Last week, a small lead coffin was unearthed in field near Tamworth and Leicestershire, by a metal detector enthusiast club, Digging Up The Past. The coffin, believed between 1600 and 1900 years old, was found four feet underground, and about two… Read More ›
Last week, a team of anthropologists from the University of South Florida began a second round of excavations near Boot Hill, the cemetery at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, FL. Two bodies were exhumed in September using hand… Read More ›
South Dakota authorities are still releasing very few details about the evidence recovered from the submerged Studebaker in rural South Dakota at the end of September. The human remains have now been sent to the University of Texas for further… Read More ›
Forensics experts have been excavating a mass grave in Tomasica, a village in the Prijedor area of northwest Bosnia, since August, so far the remains of 240 people have been exhumed. The existence of this mass grave was known by Bosnia’s Institute for… Read More ›
The Herrin City Council in Southern Illinois approved additional cemetery excavation work to find the remains of victims of a massacre during a 1922 labor strike at a nearby coal mine owned by the Southern Illinois Coal Co. The research team hopes to… Read More ›
The grave of the “Dark Countess,” who some believe was Marie Thérèse Charlotte, was exhumed on Tuesday in Germany, in the hope of resolving the 200-year-old mystery. Marie Thérèse, the eldest daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI of France, was the only… Read More ›
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