The Mass Chapel reminds us that the art of death in bone chapels echoes the ritual of death in the Eucharist. The strangeness ...

With so many remains needing housing, something had to be done with them. That's when creating the Bone Church went into full ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Capela dos Ossos is a church in Évora, Portugal, made from human bones. It was built by monks in the 16th century who wanted to encourage people to reflect on ...

DNA testing has confirmed that the remains in a Spanish cathedral belong to the explorer, but his exact origins are still unknown.

Their fascinating, morbid jewelry was beautiful and repulsive, but I couldn’t muster anything to say. I simply stood and ...

A church cafe volunteer has said he will knit for four hours each day in November in honour of his late grandfather who died ...

The ancient bone, which is encased behind glass in wooden reliquary depicting St. Jude’s arm, will make its first appearance in northern New Jersey at the Church of the Assumption in Emerson on ...

Skeletal remains found in the well of a Norwegian castle likely belong to “Well-man,” who is mentioned in the passage of an ...

The bones were hidden in the north wall of the Folkestone church where they remained until being rediscovered in 1835. The project hopes to fund DNA analysis of the bones. The Revd Dr Lesley Hardy ...

Today is Election Day! Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Follow the day's developments and the latest results from Central ...

A bone and lock of hair thought to have belonged to the controversial Dutch “naval hero” Piet Hein should be returned to his grave, according to the Old and New Church of Delft. The church is ...

Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle to a passage in a ...