Leonard Matlovich's grave stone is a fixture at the Congressional Cemetery. (Wikimedia Commons) In Southeast Washington there is a Congressional Cemetery that serves as the final resting place for ...

Archaeologists excavating an Iron Age cemetery in Tystberga unearthed a carved stone penis and stone egg used as tombstones for a grave, photos show. Screengrab from SVT's video Amid a tree-lined ...

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Silent, solemn and sacred to the memory of the deceased, tombstones tell a tale that lasts through time. Some of the earliest tombstones this side of the Atlantic can be found in the cemeteries of ...

A Utah woman’s new home came with an old mystery – a tombstone from the 1890s. Elise Armand was going through her storage shed over the weekend when she saw the tombstone on the ground between the ...

MALTA — In Joe Ferrannini’s line of work, nobody talks back. That’s one of the benefits of conserving centuries-old gravestones in area cemeteries such as Dunning Street Cemetery, the final resting ...

CHICAGO (AP/CBS) — Elmo's has been making tombstones on the South Side of Chicago for more than half a century, hand-carving grave markers for the bereaved families of everyone from local celebrities ...

Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607 and was the first English permanent settlement in America. It has been the subject of many archaeological and historical analyses, including a recent study by ...