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Syria opens criminal investigation into Assad-era mass grave revealed by Reuters

The site, in the Dhumair desert east of Damascus, was used during Assad’s rule as a military weapons depot, according to a former Syrian army officer with knowledge of the operation.

A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. A Reuters investigation found that the Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies there from an exposed mass grave in the Damascus suburb of Qutayfah from 2019-2021.
The Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Archaeologists uncover 15,000 unexpected artifacts beneath Tulsa cemetery

Displaced Sudanese children who fled with their families during violence in al-Fashir, sit inside a camp shelter, amid ongoing clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan November 3, 2025.

Satellite images reveal suspected mass graves near mosque, children’s hospital in Sudan’s El-Fasher

Grave. Illustration.

High-status seventh-century Avar warrior grave uncovered at Aba-Székesfehérvár border in Hungary


Roman mass grave discovered on Vienna outskirts reveals 150 soldiers from first-century battle

"The mass grave in Simmering is the first physical evidence of combat actions from this time and points to the localization of a battle in the area of present-day Vienna.'

 Roman mass grave discovered on Vienna outskirts reveals 150 soldiers from first-century battle.

Bavarian archaeologists uncover war graves depicted in 1551 painting

The five bodies found belong to young soldiers of Charles V's army, discovered with a boot fastener and four small silver coins dating from the 16th century.

 Bavarian archaeologists uncover war graves depicted in 1551 painting.

Mass grave of Nazi victims found at Hartheim Castle in Austria

From May 1940 to November 1944, about 30,000 people, including disabled individuals, mental patients, prisoners, and laborers, were killed in gas chambers at Hartheim Castle and burned.

 Hartheim Castle became notorious as one of the 6 centers for the Nazi killing program known as Action T4.

Researchers uncover 2,100-year-old mass grave of dismembered Han soldiers in southern Mongolia

DNA tests confirm remains are of soldiers linked to modern Han and northern Chinese populations.

 Researchers uncover 2,100-year-old mass grave of dismembered Han soldiers in southern Mongolia.

Thief steals 5,000-year-old 500kg megalith from Immekath I grave

In addition to the seized stone from the megalithic grave, investigators discovered on the property of the convicted individual eight other stones arranged in a circle.

 Megalith tomb.

Graves of ‘Eaves children’ found surrounding lost medieval Church of St. Godehard

As archaeologists began excavations at the site, they unearthed at least 30 graves of infants and young children, including newborns, buried outside the church's sanctuary and in mass graves.

 Graves of ‘Eaves children’ found surrounding lost medieval Church of St. Godehard.

Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

In the last few years, a new form of life has come to the cemetery. Young people stand in between the gravestones, chattering, laughing, and digging with shovels.

 Gravestones under restoration at Warsaw's largest Jewish cemetery, September 2024.

Iraqi authorities exhume remains of over 100 Kurdish women and children from mass grave

 Exhumed clothing of victims of Anfal genocide, 3rd International Conference on Mass Graves in Iraq, Erbil, Iraq.