Aug. 1—WADDINGTON — State police are investigating the intentional destruction of the Ogden family burial vault at Old Brookside Cemetery in the town of Waddington. In a message to the ...

ALSIP, Ill. — Skeletal remains of a man wearing a suit and tie were found sitting in a burial vault with no casket in sight at a historic black Illinois cemetery where workers allegedly dug up ...

A burial vault along Silver Springs Road near Highway 74 is bringing some drivers to a dead stop, which is what Bill Beggs, 68, and his son, Bill Beggs Jr., had wanted. Beggs was tired of seeing ...

In total, 317 skeletons and 83 brick burial vaults were uncovered and carefully excavated. The discovery came as a complete shock to archaeologists, who were unaware of the church or its burial ...

The long-lost vault being excavated. (Christophe Fouquin/Inrap) Beneath the slab, they found a long-forgotten staircase that led to a burial vault that's been sealed for at least 400 years.

Workers upgrading century-old water mains beneath Washington Square Park stumbled on a 19th-century burial vault for the second time this week, the city's design and construction agency said.

During the burial, family may help lower their loved one into the ground at the cemetery. Green burial means no embalming, no liners or vaults, no headstone, and no metal caskets.

Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.

Nearly five decades after mourners watched a crane lower a Ferrari into a concrete vault, the burial of Texas oil heiress Sandra Ilene West remains one of the most persistent stories in American car ...

Restoration efforts at the Church of Saint Philibert in France led to the discovery of a forgotten staircase and a 400-year-old burial vault.