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9,500-Year-Old Malawi Find Is Africa’s Earliest Cremation and Oldest Adult Pyre

Peer-reviewed analyses in Science Advances conclude the Hora 1 remains were burned on a constructed pyre requiring intensive communal labor.

Thai Woman Found Alive in Coffin Moments Before Cremation at Nonthaburi Temple