Looking under the stone he saw human bones. He had discovered a Bronze Age cist burial. The cist was formed by four upright slabs which supported a capstone. Inside the cist was a human burial.

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--Archaeologists were stunned by the sheer number of bronze mirrors among grave goods at a large keyhole-shaped burial mound here, more than 100 in all, a record.

A four-year project to excavate a Bronze Age burial mount on the Isle of Man has drawn to a close. The dig has unearthed the cremated remains of at least 10 people and the skeletal remains of another.

A team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has found remains of Bronze Age artefacts during ... of Archeology told SBS Hindi that eight burial sites were found. Source: Archaeological ...