Ashkelon Dog Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2024
About 50 km south of Tel Aviv, on the Mediterranean coast, near the ancient city of Ashkelon, archaeologists from the 1985 Leon Levi Expedit...
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The Strange Burial Customs of Trunyan Village
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2023
On the eastern shore of Lake Batur, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, lies the village of Trunyan—home to the culturally isolated Bali Aga p...
Sad Hill Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2023
About 30 kilometers southeast of Burgos, a charming city in the Castilla y León region of northern Spain, rests a rather expansive cemetery....
Staglieno Cemetery: Where Death is Beautiful
Anonymous
May 18, 2022
The cemetery of Staglieno represents more than the dead. It represents a confluence of movements that furthered the cause of the living. Cim...
The Healing Soil of Boho
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2020
In the Boho highlands of West Fermanagh Scarplands in Northern Ireland, there is a longstanding belief that the soil from the local churchya...
The British Cemetery on American Land
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2019
For its size, the island of Ocracoke on the Outer Banks, off the coast of North Carolina, has a surprising number of cemeteries—more than ei...
Cemetery Guns And Coffin Torpedoes
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2019
This unusual-looking gun, now exhibited at the Museum of Mourning Art in Arlington Cemetery, once kept body snatchers away from cemetery gr...
Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2018
In the far eastern edge of the desolate Taklamakan Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest settlement, a clump of dense wooden stake...
The House Built From Tombstones
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2018
This humble two-storied marble-clad house in Petersburg, in the US state of Virginia, has more than 150 years of Civil War history embedded ...
The Boneyard of Colon Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2018
The Colon Cemetery in Havana, Cuba, named after Christopher Columbus, is well known for its many elaborately sculpted memorials and mausoleu...
The Chapel of Prosthetics, New Orleans's St Roch Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2018
Beyond the tombstones, at the back of St. Roch cemetery in the US city of New Orleans, Louisiana, lies the shrine of St. Roch, dedicated to ...
The Basement Cemetery of The New Haven Green Church
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2018
The New Haven Green in downtown New Haven, a city in Connecticut, USA, is a small park of about 16 acres. Being surrounded by buildings of t...
The Rise of Vertical Cemeteries
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2017
According to the Population Reference Bureau , there are approximately 101 billion dead people on earth with 7 billion more to join them wit...
The Udny Mort House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2017
Much of what we know about the human anatomy comes from dissecting human cadavers. The practice goes back to classical antiquity. The Greeks...
Lanterns Of The Dead
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2017
During the 12th century, people in the central and western parts of France erected small towers in their villages with windows at the top, i...
Puzzling Gravestones
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2017
When Canadian doctor Samuel Bean lost his first two wives, Henrietta and Susanna, within 20 months of each other, he decided that the best w...
Victor Noir’s Mysterious Erection
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2017
The Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is home to many famous dead people, including Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. The grave of Oscar Wilde, in...
The Witty Epitaphs of Key West Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2017
A cemetery might seem like an odd destination on a tourist circuit, but the one in Key West, Florida, has a lot of history and some rather i...
The Russian Gangster Cemetery in Yekaterinburg
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2017
The Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery, located on the southwestern outskirts of Yekaterinburg, in Russia, is the final resting place of many famous...
The Grave With A Window
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2017
There is a curious grave at Evergreen Cemetery in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Vermont, the United States. It’s a small grassy ...
