Sentences with phrase «mass grave»

Archaeologists uncover intertwined skeletons dating back 2,400 years in mass grave of «first settlers in Mexico City» The bones were found buried Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon - 14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by

In Bronze Age Europe, even the historical accounts of war were lacking, and all investigators had to go on were weapons in ceremonial burials and a handful of mass graves with unmistakable evidence of violence, such as decapitated bodies or arrowheads embedded in bones.

This Jewish Flesh Wyschogrod is taken with the story, which may or may not be apocryphal, that when Pope John XXIII saw the pictures of bulldozers pushing Jewish corpses into mass graves at the newly liberated Nazi murder camps, he exclaimed: «There is the body of Christ.»

In many post-atrocity nations, disinterred human remains are reburied; for example, in Guatemala and Bosnia - Herzegovina, remains exhumed from mass graves are later buried in accordance with local and religious customs, and often as a means to counter the disorder of the mass violence.

I had been skeptical of what enjoyment could be taken from visiting one of the largest mass graves on earth.

To shed light on the origin and path of the second pandemic, Spyrou and co-senior study authors Alexander Herbig, Kirsten Bos, and Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History collected samples from plague - infected individuals buried in mass grave sites in Barcelona, Spain, and Ellwangen, Germany, as well as a single grave in Bolgar City, Russia.

«The Sum of all Evil» produced by the PinchukArtCentre, is a monumental miniature landscape which is composed of four encased dioramas sited on historical events including the discovery in Babi Yar (1941) of the Ukrainian mass grave where the Nazi occupier executed more than 30,000 Jews in just two days.

Koff recounts in clear and courageous tones her work at mass grave sites, piecing together hacked bones and clothing scraps retrieved from crumbling flesh.

There are rats on Aemilia's kitchen table and naked babies flung into mass graves as the plague claims many victims.

Of course, Hollywood's sensitivity has always begun and ended at the box office, and less than three months later, two big - budget international thrillers are making the multiplexes safe again for terrorism and genocide: in Spy Game the CIA instigates a suicide truck - bombing to eliminate a Muslim terrorist in Beirut, and in Behind Enemy Lines a navy jet pilot navigator complicates NATO negotiations after taking reconnaissance photos of mass graves containing Bosnian Muslims.

Ruiz began the project about five years before the peace accords that ended the country's civil war, when survivors had begun uncovering mass graves in and around their villages.

Szibor points out that the Gestapo rarely dug mass graves in the middle of a city.

on Digging mass graves for #climate - driven heat wave in Pakistan: «Thank G - d we are better prepared this time...»

There are crematoria in the Midwest and mass graves near San Francisco, and Spotnitz takes us at season's end to Germany, to Berlin, Berchtesgaden, and an aged Adolph Hitler who (wonderful conceit by Spotnitz) is another Man in a High Castle.

An orchestral concert played for a starving population, a beautiful park situated over mass graves.

The screenplay may delve into Tutu's activities outside of the prison — overseeing testimony, arriving at the site of mass graves outside «hostels,» speaking about the humiliation of the apartheid days — but the film's heart resides on the faithful man's side of the table during those difficult conservations.

PICTURES of what look like mass graves.

The unearthing of an ancient mass grave filled with Roman skeletons has left archeologists in modern Turkey grappling for answers after they uncovered the Demre is a town and its surrounding district in the Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, named after the river Demre.

Nuns who ran an orphanage where 400 children have been discovered in a secret mass grave have promised... More

Following disclosures of the slaughter and secret burial of 347 members of a Shi'ite religious group in mass graves by the Nigerian army must be urgently investigated said Amnesty International today, and anyone suspected of criminal responsibility for these crimes must be brought to trial.

In May 2009, AAAS reviewed satellite imagery of the Sheberghan area of northern Afghanistan, where possible mass graves were suspected of being created in 2001.

We've wept beside mass graves and watched ISIS chemical rockets slam into communities.

... Now they have finally gone and the asphalt playgrounds have been grassed over or sown with flowers like small mass graves.

But when historian Jan Tomasz Gross saw the photo, he was moved to write Golden Harvest, a controversial new book in which he argues that many Poles enriched themselves during the war by exploiting Jews, from plundering mass graves to ferreting out Jews in hiding for reward.

«We can not build (a) modern world above mass graves of people killed in genocide.

In a reminder of the brutality of their father's regime, journalists visited sites thought to be mass graves left behind by the authorities — possibly of army officers who refused to fight for Col Gaddafi.

In 1996, PHR recruited Yvonne Milewski, MD, a forensic pathologist, to travel to Bosnia to participate in the largest forensic investigation of mass graves ever conducted.

From the care taken with burial to the health of the victims, the largest ever investigation of a wartime mass grave has revealed far more than identities

«Radiocarbon dating reveals mass grave did date to the Viking age.»

Still, images acquired from other private satellite companies, like DigitalGlobe, remain crucial to Amnesty's work, because they can offer the 30 - centimeter resolution needed to, say, identify mass graves or count the buildings destroyed in a village that's been burned to the ground.

The memorial design — which involved a mile - long wall that ran past mass graves — sparked some back - and - forth between the Polish Ministry of Culture, which had planned the memorial, and Israel's Yad Vashem, which lobbied on behalf of the archaeologists.

These scans helped them estimate the locations of former mass graves and buildings, including one they suspected had housed the camp's first gas chambers.

Researchers excavated 24 skeletons out of a mid — 16th century mass grave in this plaza.

University of Tennessee students pause while digging a grave at the Forensic Anthropology Center in Knoxville in 2013, at the start of a project using remote sensing technology to locate mass graves.

I'm clearly never going to be in Sweet and Filardi's league — Sweet manages the museum's climate - controlled mass grave of bird corpses; Filardi spends months on end living in a hut made of leaves on the Solomon Islands, extracting birds» DNA — but even I, an urban sophisticate with a belly full of latte, experience an ineffable, or barely effable, satisfaction at the sight of a twitching organism ringed by darkness.

Scientists want to aid in the search for hidden mass graves in Colombia.

[12] Although politically sanctioned, the exhumation of Argentine mass graves in the 1980s and 1990s were opposed by mothers of the missing and other surviving relatives.

Unlike other maps, this one was fashioned out of 300 human crania and other human bones exhumed from Khmer Rouge mass graves.

After the Khmer Rouge regime ended, citizens and local authorities exhumed hundreds of thousands of human remains from mass graves across the country.

The more you see, the worse it gets, so that at the beginning of «In Darkness,» watching the Nazis march naked Polish women into the woods, toward their own mass grave, I just didn't want to go there again.

[*] He explained that in an earlier incarnation, in the early 1990s, he had gone to Bosnia and Croatia to analyze the potential of satellite sensors to detect mass graves in forests.

This is the city where the child Mozart played his heart out for the Empress, and where 30 years later he ended up rotting in an unmarked mass grave.

As violence and civil unrest grows in the country of South Sudan, the U.N. has made a disturbing announcement, saying investigators have uncovered mass graves and signs of ethnically - motivated killings.

They've actually done this to hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims at mass graves and concentration camp sites through - out Europe.

Incidentally, Macdonald has no qualms in keeping Rosoff's story far from watered down: violence is doled out to adults and children alike in shockingly graphic fashion, mass graves fill parking lots as foxes eat the remains, and Macdonald finds his bleakest moment near the end with that seemingly essential (and elbowed in) element of apocalypse cinema — rape by unhinged military soldiers.

In World War II, the usual practice was to bulldoze Ja panese casualties into hastily dug mass graves, with no services whatsoever.