Genome-wide data extracted from human remains placed inside cliffside coffins across southern China now directly connect the ...

For over 2,000 years, the Igorot people have practised this ritual, placing their deceased loved ones in these hanging coffins high above the ground. The Igorot people are indigenous tribes inhabiting ...

For thousands of years, communities across parts of Asia followed a burial ritual unlike any other. Instead of burying their dead underground, they placed wooden coffins high on cliffs and ...

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A new study has uncovered a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the Hanging Coffin burial tradition and the modern Bo people in Southwest China. The findings published in Nature ...

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A skull pokes out of a coffin made out of roughly hewn planks of wood, its smooth white surface catching the reflection of the winter light flooding into the dark cave. It’s one of about 30 caskets ...

While visiting cemeteries is not at the top of most people’s lists of things to see when traveling, sometimes, the burial customs of different peoples around the globe can give us insight into their ...

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Perched on cliffs and caves across China are hanging coffins. One man has made it his mission to find out why people chose to bury their dead in them. See the video below -- Perched on cliffs and ...