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Iran regime targets grave of protest victim in ongoing effort to erase evidence of crackdown

Human rights groups claim that Layqpour’s body was returned to his family after four days on the condition that they declare his cause of death a heart attack.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Supporters participate in a protest marking the third anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini's death in memory of the Iranian victims of the Women, Life, Freedom movement at Queen's Park in Toronto on September 14, 2025.
The sarcophagus of Queen Elisenda in the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria Pedralbes.

Remains of medieval European Queen Elisenda, 24 others unearthed in Barcelona

The work, which includes genetic analyses, dating, and material studies, began in 2024 and will continue until May 2027 as part of the monastery’s 700th anniversary celebrations.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Graves of recently-buried people killed in US-Israeli airstrikes are pictured at Beheshta Zahra cemetery on the southern outskirts of Tehran on March 9, 2026.

Burial prices in Iran skyrocket by up to 50% after Tehran council approves new tariff - report

For a 10 km journey, families will now need to pay 9.75 million rials, not including the costs of ritual washing, the shroud, cold storage before burial, and gravestone installation.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Roman-era burial discovered in eastern Croatia, May 29, 2026.

Rare, intact ancient Roman burial unearthed during excavations in eastern Croatia - report

Previously, a total of 44 other Roman graves were discovered during excavations for the project, however the most recent find is the first to be fully undisturbed. 

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

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.