Known as the ‘City of the Dead’ Colma is home to approximately 1.5 million graves and just 1,507 living residents. A ...
Additionally, the study of grave markers has been an integral part of the Metal Art study program for the past 10 years, offering students insights into the historical and cultural significance of ...
A monument has been erected to honor about 450 Black people buried in unmarked graves at the Taylor City Cemetery.
Until a few weeks ago, they did it for no formal pay - digging graves, washing corpses and tending to the vast cemetery, ...
He explains how part of the wall has collapsed, allowing those on the look-out for scrap metal to steal the grave markers. Some of the graves have metal plates inscribed with a name and date of ...
Nebraska is home to hundreds of private cemeteries that are rich in history. But it often falls to local do-gooders to ...
A local cemetery’s annual cleanup of artificial flowers and items left on the graves has upset people whose loved ones are ...
Avianca Flight 52 crashed in suburban Long Island and a 17-year-old girl was pulled from the wreckage. Survival has been its ...
and these two voids serve as markers of that shift – of who, and what, we've lost. Did we get it right? Was the The National 9/11 Memorial the most significant building completed in 2011?
Mass graves are being discovered in Syria, testament to the horrors committed under the now ousted leader Bashar al Assad. The story of one man forced to help dig some of those graves.
Seventeen people were killed and 159 others hurt when a full-speed train crashed into another nearly stopped on the tracks near Evanston in 1951. The ...