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Ancient Polish 'princess' burial date revealed after decades of archaeological mystery - study

In 1899, the young woman’s coffin, made of a hollowed-out oak log, had tumbled from an eroding cliff above the Baltic coast village. She was nicknamed by locals as the “Princess of Bagicz.”

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
The Princess of Bagicz’s wooden coffin, accessed on February 27, 2026.
Buildings lie in ruins amidst the rubble in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 8, 2025.

IDF confirms Gaza Commonwealth war cemetery damaged in operation to destroy Hamas terror tunnels

The IDF's operation to dismantle Hamas tunnels in Gaza has damaged a Commonwealth military cemetery, raising concerns about the preservation of war graves and the handling of sensitive sites.

|ByJAMES GENN
One of the Jewish graves desecrated at Les Corts cemetary in Barcelona.

Dozens of Jewish graves vandalized at Barcelona cemetery

Spanish politician Daniel Sirera responded to the incident, stating in a post to X/Twitter, “It is not mere vandalism: it is antisemitism.”

|ByESTHER DAVIS
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.

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.

|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

DECEMBER 29, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Exhumed clothing of victims of Anfal genocide, 3rd International Conference on Mass Graves in Iraq, Erbil, Iraq.