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The archaeological site of Herxheim, located in the municipality of Herxheim in southwest Germany, was a ritual center and a mass grave formed by people of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) culture in Neolithic Europe. The site is often compared to that of the Talheim Death Pit and Schletz-Asparn, but is quite different in nature.
The Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth, Dorset, was a mass grave of 54 skeletons, including 51 skulls, of Scandinavian men executed some time between AD 970 and 1025. The men are believed to have been Vikings executed by local Anglo-Saxons .
Mass grave of 26 victims of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, excavated in 2014. A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial.
Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s and early 1600s, and found shards of pottery and coins dating from the later end of that range at the site.
Historians believe the remains belong to people who died from the 1918 Spanish influenza.
QUTAYFAH, Syria (Reuters) -An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled ...
In a pit excavated next to these four men were placed the bodies of a large group of young women. This mass grave contained the remains of 53 females ranging between 15 and 30 years of age, arranged in two layers separated by matting. [4] [6] [8] The young women show evidence of having been strangled before being arranged in neat rows in the ...
Yet the mass graves are still mostly found by accident, leading to new arrests and traumatizing survivors all over again. The October discovery led to the arrest of Jean Baptiste Hishamunda, 87 ...