Human remains (archaeological)

Pompeii (; ) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, it was buried under of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pair of human skeletons found near Mantua, Italy, in 2007

Iron Age bog body found in England who was beaten with a club and had his throat cut before death

mummified corpse from the Atacama desert, Chile

remains of a 8150 BC human male found in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, UK

island in Greenland

remains of an early Bronze Age man

Viking warrior burial, Birka, Sweden

Aeclanum (also spelled Aeculanum, , ) was an ancient town of Samnium, Southern Italy, about 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia. It lies in Passo di Mirabella, near the modern Mirabella Eclano.

Neolithic bog body from Sweden

archaeological discovery

humans who lived 38,000 years ago in Sri Lanka

archaeological find

Inuit child (1890–1918)

Pleistocene archaeological site in Victoria, Australia

Paleo-Indian human whose skull has been found in Mexico City

archeological discovery

Roman age grave

archaeological site

hominin fossil

12,000-year-old skeleton found in Mexico

Trijntje is the name given to the oldest known human skeleton discovered in the Netherlands. The remains, belonging to a woman who lived around 5500 BCE during the Mesolithic period, were unearthed in 1997 near Hardinxveld-Giessendam during the construction of the Betuweroute railway line.

purposed hand of a yeti found in Nepal