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Ancient Caravan Burial Site Discovered in the Negev Desert
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered ancient tombs near Tlalim Junction in the Negev ...
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The Oldest Known Rune Stone Fragments Found in Burial Sites, Hints at Germanic Ritual Practices
The Oldest Known Rune Stone Fragments Found in Burial Sites, Hints at Germanic Ritual Practices Archaeologists discovered ...
Connecticut Families: Bloomfield genealogist shares historical information with Black families
In the 1990s, John Mills of Bloomfield embarked on a quest to find out more about his ancestors. This took him to a Texas ...
The grave matter of John Goetz: Church hopes blessing sheds light on difficult subject
Laketown Township farmer John Goetz woke about 6 a.m., built a fire and put the coffee on the stove. The Nov. 6, 1884 Herald reported that the married Civil War veteran, father of three children and ...
Pieces of Our Past: The Snowden Memorial at Ellsworth Cemetery
Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...
New Orleans cemetery tours show city's history even beyond the grave
"When I walk through a cemetery and I'm reading these names and thinking about them, they live again, just for a moment, and ...
Memorial honors African Americans laid to rest at Taylor City Cemetery
TAYLOR, Texas — In the city of Taylor, hundreds of African American grave sites have gone without headstones for decades. Now ...
More pieces of oldest known rune stone unearthed in Norway. See the ancient puzzle
Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...
Monument honors about 450 Black people buried in unmarked graves in Taylor City Cemetery
A monument has been erected to honor about 450 Black people buried in unmarked graves at the Taylor City Cemetery.
Howell neighbors fear what proposed cemetery would do to their drinking water
Stephen Meier lives across the street from the proposed cemetery and told the zoning board that he and his neighbors all use ...
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Hundreds of private burial sites dot Nebraska. They rely on guardian angels to keep blight at bay.
The Kobs family burial ground, now part of a nature preserve owned and operated by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is ...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: NYC’s sacred — and segregated — Black burial sites
Many New Yorkers can cite chapter and verse about the African Burial Ground National Monument in downtown Manhattan near City Hall, but only a few know about the burial grounds and segregated ...