People have long held a morbid curiosity about dea...  ...first place. Where will we draw the line between grave robbing and archaeology? Should respect for cultu...

In the mid-19th century, Alexander Stewart ran a v...  ...in 1876, and was buried (but not embalmed) in the graveyard at Saint-Mark’s-Church-In-The-Bowery. Two y...  ...squo;s-Church-In-The-Bowery. Two years later, the grave was unearthed by unknown persons, and Stewart's c...  ...aralleled by anything he...

The year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Willi...  ...nce to a rumor that Shakespeare was the victim of grave robbers over 200 years ago. His head looks to be missing....  ...skull was probably stolen from what is a shallow grave by trophy hunters.Kevin Colls, the archaeologist...  ...lls, the archaeologist...

Medical doctors didn’t always get the respec...  ...ctors in training were seen as not much more than grave robbers . In the closing years of the 18th century, New Y...  ...newspaper stories about medical students robbing graves to get bodies for dissection, mostly from the pot...  ...s into their hands a...

In the 19th century, medical education was making...  ...ave rise to the profession of body-snatching, and grave robbers could make a pretty penny for their clandestine e...