#Cemetery

A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million—one of the largest ever recorded.

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil.…

From Independent RSS Feed: Historic Black cemetery has 17 graves vandalized with ‘Trump’ spray-painted: ‘Evil’

When my son died, my understanding of motherhood changed. Now, I spend Mother's Day at his grave. It's the only place I feel like a whole family.

The widow is suing the cemetery, claiming its mistake has caused her “severe emotional distress and mental anguish and [that she] has been denied her right to grieve.”

A tree in Alexandra Cemetery has been felled after what the Central Otago District Council (CODC) believes was a deliberate act of damage, sparking...

Completed in 2024 in Ankaran, Slovenia. Images by Miran Kambič, Ana Skobe. Cemeteries are sites containing the quiet presence of memories and the constancy of cultural rituals; this combination poignantly defines a sense of...

From Nypost RSS Feed: Remains of suspected serial killer finally booted from US military cemetery

A tree in Alexandra Cemetery has been felled after what the Central Otago District Council (CODC) believes was a deliberate act of damage, sparking...

In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any information about the scope of the disaster, aside from terse announcements from the government of the Soviet Union

In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any information about the scope of the disaster, aside from terse announcements from the government of the Soviet...

From Archaeological Institute of America: Princeton: Tours of the Princeton Cemetery

New York architecture studio ARO has restored a historic greenhouse at the storied Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, surrounding the structure with a new welcome centre and entrance courtyard. Read more

A growing body of evidence shows that cemeteries host much more life — including insects, birds, mammals, and rare plants — than death.

Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn grew out of the 19th-century "rural cemetery" movement that transformed graveyards from cramped and dark to sprawling and beautiful

Inspired by Korean funerary practices, the artist's new works examine how ritual and reflection mark the cycles of time.

The Baroque cemetery in Střílky stands as a unique masterpiece of Central European sepulchral architecture. Its distinction lies in its elevated terraced design, employing fortification principles to create a "theater of memory" (theatrum memoriae).…