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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
September 15, 2017, 1:35 pm
Elul and the shipwrecked sailors
How a Nova Scotia ocean cliff burial site inspires one-way acts of kindness
By Sally Abrams
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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