DAHSHOUR, Egypt -- In this more than 4,500-year-old Pharaonic necropolis, Egypt's modern rituals of the dead are starting to encroach on its ancient ones. Steamrollers flatten the desert sand, and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered at least 20 wooden coffins in an ancient necropolis in the southern city of Luxor. In a statement, the Antiquities Ministry described the find as “one of the ...

On a cold, windy November day among the graves and tombs of long-gone souls, Annette Mullen is full of life about the future of Glasgow's Necropolis. "The memorial to firefighters who lost their lives ...

JERUSALEM – A Jewish group in Jerusalem is using 21st-century technology to map every tombstone in the ancient cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a sprawling, politically sensitive necropolis of 150,000 ...

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Archaeologists have unearthed a huge Roman cemetery containing more than 250 burials of infants and stillborn babies. The ancient necropolis was uncovered in Place du Maréchal Leclerc—a square in the ...

Adjacent to the Glasgow Cathedral, the Necropolis is comparatively new, dating back to 1830s, while the cathedral is several hundred years older. Approximately 50,000 people are interred here; not all ...

Back in the day when I started working as a tour guide, the usual Manila tour included two cemeteries – American Cemetery and Chinese Cemetery. It felt strange to have two cemeteries in a standard ...

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