The oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States is an elaborate display of wealth — an intricately carved slab of black limestone initially laid in the floor of the second church of ...

“We hypothesize [Sherwood’s tombstone] was quarried and cut to size in Belgium, shipped down the Meuse River, across the ...

In a FOX23 Investigation, we told you tombstones were found in a creek bed in Okmulgee County in December. Since then, we’ve ...

At the "Merry Cemetery," the tombstones are made of hand-painted wood instead of grey rock. They're also carved with personalized stories and whimsical cartoons. Full-time travelers Armando ...

They seemed to be posted randomly, he said — on old and new graves, on carved tombstones and wooden crosses. Bewildered municipal workers initially recorded the sightings as they tried to figure ...

With the help of a grant from the Foundation for Montana History, the Butte-Silver Bow Archives is hosting a new exhibit, "Business of Burial in Butte." ...

The tombstone is carved out of local grit stone quarried from Rombalds Moor.As the Roman Empire expanded to take in most of the 'known world', it encountered many different cultures. Once they ...

Pippo Agosto trained in biology but has always been interested in history. His fascination with Chinese graves led to the discovery of Semarang’s oldest Chinese tombstone.