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Workers at the construction site of a massive underground cemetery in Jerusalem, August 18, 2019. (Oded Balilty/AP)
August 29, 2019, 1:45 pm
As cemeteries run out of space, massive modern catacombs to open in Jerusalem
Inspired by ancient Jewish custom of cave burials, tunnels with sepulchers for interring the dead are prepared beneath capital’s near-capacity Har Hamenuhot cemetery
By Ilan Ben Zion and ISAAC SCHARF
Excavation of a mass burial in Jerusalem's Russian compound, summer 2018. (Kfir Arbiv/Israel Antiquities Authority)
October 12, 2018, 8:32 am
Ancient beheading site found in Jerusalem, evidence of ‘holy’ king’s bloody rule
Archaeologists now know whodunnit — the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus — after uncovering a 2,000-year-old mass burial ground in the municipality’s backyard
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Ohabei Shalom Cemetery with its burial chapel in East Boston, Massachusetts, on June 10, 2018 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
June 20, 2018, 10:55 pm
Immigrant center planned in the grounds of Boston’s oldest Jewish cemetery
Inside a converted burial chapel, the city’s newest and most vulnerable residents will access citizenship resources alongside content on East Boston’s Jewish past
By Matt Lebovic
Rendering of underground cemetery under construction in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Rolzur)
November 14, 2017, 12:17 am
Underground cemetery project looks to the past for the graveyard of the future
Nominated for international award, Israeli tunneling company building 22,000-grave catacomb beneath capital’s largest Jewish graveyard to alleviate burial space shortage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Sally Abrams
September 15, 2017, 1:35 pm
Sally Abrams
Elul and the shipwrecked sailors
How a Nova Scotia ocean cliff burial site inspires one-way acts of kindness
The Bei’r Al-Shaghala burial site in Dakhla. (Egypt Ministry of Antiquities)
August 24, 2017, 10:31 pm
Egypt archaeologists uncover Roman era tombs
Three mausoleums ‘of different shapes and sizes’ discovered in excavation of ancient burial ground
By AFP
Bones of a prehistoric woman discovered in a burial site in the Hilazon cave in northern Israel. (Naftali Hilger)
July 6, 2016, 6:29 am
12,000-year-old grave of Shaman woman unearthed in Galilee
Well-preserved burial site sheds new light on the prevalence of ritual practice in prehistoric human society
By TOI staff
Inscription at the Jewish catacombs of Rome (Wikimedia commons)
April 30, 2016, 10:06 pm
Rome opens Jewish catacombs to public
Viewable until May 5, ancient burial site of notable Italian Jews consists of extensive underground tunnels
By TOI staff
New memorial statue for the "forgotten children" buried at Massachusetts' second oldest Jewish cemetery, in Malden (photo credit: Matt Lebovic)
December 24, 2013, 3:52 am
‘Forgotten children’ remembered at historic MA cemetery
A large-scale renovation restores graves — and a chapter of American Jewish history
By Matt Lebovic
The underwater structure discovered in the Sea of Galilee (photo credit: Professor Shmuel Marco, Tel Aviv University)
June 11, 2013, 12:28 pm
Researchers find underwater monument in Sea of Galilee
Cone-shaped structure was apparently built on dry land some 6,000 years ago, resembles early European burial sites
By Asher Zeiger
Reproduction of Adolf Hitler from the archive of Israeli Nazi hunter Tuviah Friedman (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
April 1, 2012, 7:44 pm
Tombstone of Hitler’s parents removed in Austria
An anonymous relative of the Nazi dictator has relinquished her rights to the burial plot, which had served as a pilgrimage site for right-wing extremists
By Nathan Burstein
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