cemetery

  • One for you, one for me

    On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. “One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me,”…

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  • Archeologists in southern England have discovered some 40 beheaded skeletons among the remains of 425 bodies found in a late Roman cemetery. A team of some 50 archeologists made the discovery during an excavation at Fleet Marston, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on the route of the multi-billion pound high-speed rail link currently under construction. Nearly 10…

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  • A team of archaeologists in Luxor, Egypt just discovered two small ancient tombs dating back about 3,500 years. According to an update from USA Today, proven with pictures from Fox News, those tombs appeared to have served as part of a cemetery used exclusively for noblemen and top officials who lived centuries ago. Egyptian archaeological…

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  • Urns containing the remains of 18 people were reportedly stolen from the Union Cemetery in Stratford, officials at the cemetery said Friday. Image: Vandals stole ashes from 18 dead people buried in a cemetery. At least one person entered the cemetery on Temple Court in the overnight hours between Thursday, June 23 and Friday, June…

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