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Angola's oldest burials, including its only known ancient cremation, uncovered at a 15th-century site doomed by a dam

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As the construction of a hydroelectric dam loomed, archaeologists raced to uncover Angola's earliest dated burials and its only known cremation at a 15th-century settlement before it vanished beneath the water.

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