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Within Africa, there is evidence of burned human remains at a 7,500-year-old site in Egypt, although these are not associated ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s earliest intentional cremation of an adult human known till date in Malawi, a ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

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About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...

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A 9,500-year-old burial in Malawi is identified as the world’s oldest adult cremation, offering insight into early African mortuary practices.