A man in Vietnam went to extreme lengths to pay off his gambling debt by digging up his late uncle's bones and using them to extort money from his family. He asked his family for 5 billion Vietnamese dong (US$203,000) which he wanted to pay off his gambling debt.

Man digs up uncle's grave, steals bones, extorts family to pay off debt

The archaeologists were left stunned when they discovered dozens of graves of children, which belonged to the Bronze and Iron Ages, in southern Norway. Each of the burials was marked with circles of meticulously placed stones and are said to be hundreds of years old.

Norway unearths graves of children buried for 600 years beneath ancient stone circles

Archaeologists excavating the Neolithic settlement of Boncuklu Tarla in southeastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable collection of stud-shaped objects, reminiscent of contemporary body piercings.

Archaeologists discover earliest direct evidence of body piercings in Neolithic graves in Turkey

The police in Indonesia have arrested a village shaman who has allegedly killed at least 12 people after he had promised to multiply their money in Central Java.

Indonesia: ‘Money-multiplying’ shaman accused of killing at least a dozen people, arrested

The Peruvian archaeologists on Friday discovered 30 graves from the pre-Inca era north of Lima. According to a report in Reuters, the burial bundles belonging to the Chantay culture were found in a cemetery at Macaton mountain in the north-central Huaral valley.

30 graves from pre-Inca age found in Peru, to reveal more about Chancay culture

A year since the discovery of the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children that exposed Canada’s history of “cultural genocide”, more than 90 “potential” graves are said to have been unearthed at a former residential school in the western province of British Columbia.

More than 90 ‘potential’ graves of Indigenous kids unearthed at Canada school

US President Joe Biden visited graves of first wife and infant daughter, who had died in a car crash, on Saturday. To pay respects to loved ones lost on the 49th anniversary of the mishap, Biden and family members thronged Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic church in Delaware, which is his home state.

Biden pays respects on first wife, daughter’s graves on crash’s 49th anniversary

The discovery of mass graves in Canada has put the spotlight on the shameful past of several other countries. Time & again western nations have had to confront the horrors of racial cleansing & mass graves. Palki Sharma gets you a report.

Gravitas: The most shocking discoveries of mass graves

After remains of 215 children were found in Canada's British Columbia, 751 unmarked graves have been unearthed in Saskatchewan. It is one of the largest burial sites found till date. Palki Sharma tells you how Canada is being forced to face one of the darkest chapters in its history.

Gravitas: Canada unearths its brutal history

Egyptian mother-of-three Menna said she was caught off guard when a bulldozer clearing space for a controversial highway flattened much of a mausoleum that doubled as her home in a sprawling cemetery.

Egypt highway uproots graves, homes in 'City of Dead'

A Malaysian inquiry into the 2015 discovery of suspected human-trafficking camps and graves in the jungle heard Thursday police found one of the sites months before authorities publicly revealed their existence.

Malaysian inquiry probes trafficking camps, migrant graves

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