Victorian gravestone masons used symbols — an anchor for hope, a tree stump for a life cut short, a rose for love.

By Eve Sampson and Christopher F. Schuetze The police in Germany detained a suspect in a Friday stabbing attack at Berlin’s iconic Holocaust memorial that left one person seriously injured.

A grieving woman said she was horrified to discover piles of discarded human ashes seemingly dumped on land at a crematorium. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post ...

"This is my child's grave - my fourth child," she said pointing towards the concrete cross. Thieves smash headstones in order to remove metal crosses The theft of crosses and markers from graves ...

The 1.95 by 1.2-inch stickers are printed with a QR code, that, when scanned, shows the name of the person buried in the grave and its location in the cemetery — but nothing else. "We haven't ...

Cemeteries hold millions more stories than headstone markers. Two Saturdays ago, our two youngest sons and I visited the Memorial Gardens Cemetery and Funeral Home down on Airport Road.

Examples include patterns of gene expression, levels of a particular protein in body fluids, or changes in electrical activity in the brain. We leveraged early-pregnancy prenatal cell-free DNA ...

Over the past two hundred years, hundreds of human bones have been dredged up from the iconic River Thames that runs through London. According to a new study, most date back to the Bronze and Iron ...

A steady queue of people braved freezing temperatures and possible arrest in Moscow to visit Mr Navalny’s grave in Borisovskoye cemetery, while his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, was due to address a ...

The couple he is suspected of murdering remain missing and buried in an unmarked grave. But mobster Cornelius Price's Rochdale resting place is now adorned with an extravagant headstone and ornaments.

His family would take him to visit his great-grandmother’s grave, and soon he ... marked not with expensive granite but with wooden crosses or metal markers in the shape of traditional gravestones.

A grave marker later constructed on the site became the focal point for an annual pilgrimage of the surviving families for decades who gathered in remembrance. Through a series of improbable ...