Ireland is opening a new chapter of its dark past as experts begin to dig for the remains of babies and children of unwed ...

Excavations have begun at the site of a former church-run mother-and-baby home in Ireland, where the remains of around 800 ...

Excavations begin Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

Research led by local historian Catherine Corless indicated that 796 babies and young children were buried in a sewage system ...

Team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts begins excavating to identify remains of about 800 children.

Babies were buried, without coffins, one on top of the other in the 9ft-deep chamber of a septic tank in Tuam, Galway ...

A major excavation of a mass, unmarked grave of babies and young children in the west of Ireland began on Monday.

In 2014, research led by local historian Catherine Corless indicated that 796 babies and young children were buried in a sewage system at the Co Galway institution across that time period. St Mary’s ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...