Nazi-era WWII graves to be excavated in Austria

Austrian authorities to exhume some 220 bodies buried on a hospital’s grounds once it has thawed. These could be possible victims of Nazi extermination.

Further articles on this topic can be found at Reuters and the BBC

Dinosaur mass grave

An amateur paleontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe’s largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus.

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Mass grave found on Olympics site

An ancient burial pit containing 45 severed skulls, that could be a mass war grave dating back to Roman times, has been found under a road being built for the 2012 British Olympics.

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The killing fields of Cambodia

The killing fields is a name given to the number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried.

Read up about the killing fields on Wikipedia

Read up about the Cambodian genocide on Guardian.co.uk

Uncovering Iraq’s Horrors in Desert Graves

2006 Article from the New York Times:

Uncovering Iraq’s Horrors in Desert Graves

Babies found in Iraqi mass grave

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Babies found in Iraqi mass grave

Mass graves in Iraq

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Mass graves in Iraq

WWII Mass Grave Discovered in Former Yugoslavia

A grave containing the remains of 4500 soldiers has been found in Croatia.

Read the full article at Digital Journal.

Afghan mass grave

Around 30-40 bodies have been uncovered in a mass grave in an education department west of Afghan’s capital Kabul.

The mass grave was discovered during construction processes.

Primary investigation has been carried out by Afghanistan Human Rights Commission.

Read the full article at Quqnoos