Scholar Roger Luckhurt’s richly illustrated book chronicles the ways we memorialize the dead across the world, tracing burial ...

State agencies estimate abandoned cemeteries outnumber the total number of cemeteries that have been recorded. Zora Neale Hurston's grave in Fort Pierce became a historic site after its rediscovery.

Several thousand people live in graveyards in the Philippines. Homes, eateries, and daycare centers have been made of tombs and mausoleums. Residents of two Cebu cemeteries told Insider that living ...

A mass grave site in Tehran, where thousands executed in the aftermath of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution were buried, is being paved over to create a car park. Satellite images reveal that Lot 41 of ...