Fifty newly identified victims were honored and reburied Monday in Bosnia as thousands gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust.
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Two sets of remains found last year at Oaklawn Cemetery have yielded enough DNA to possibly identify them by name and as victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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When the Army exhumed grave B-13 on Saturday, intending to repatriate the boy's remains to the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina, they did not match those of a male age 13 or 14.
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Working with the remains of victims of Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii and Herculaneum, Italian researchers have conducted the first proteomic analyses of bones exposed to eruptive conditions.
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A Delaware judge has refused to dismiss corpse abuse charges against a former state forensic investigator accused of improperly handling two bodies on separate occasions.
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A partial skull that was discovered last summer by two kayakers in Minnesota will be returned to Native American officials after investigations determined it was about 8,000 years old.
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A week after a decades-old body was found in receding Lake Mead, authorities in Las Vegas are trying to identify a second set of newly discovered human remains.
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A Troy University professor and two students in the budding forensic sciences program were recently called on to assist the Pike County Sheriff’s Department in the search for the remains of a 2012 murder victim believed to be buried in southern Pike County.
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This approach will allow a team to pinpoint the exact number of individuals in a comingled mass grave and sort them out individually based on bone metabolism.
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When Kendall Gehring was in eighth grade, she went on a school field trip to Historic Jamestowne, where she was fascinated to learn about the remains of Jane, a 14-year-old girl who died between 1609 and 1610 and whose bones held evidence of cannibalism.
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