Blog posts - Cemetery & Memorial History

Every culture has its own unique way of honoring the deceased. While flowers, life insurance, and headstones are common in Western funeral traditions, other cultures have developed elaborate, symbolic, and...

Exploring the World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries Cemeteries are more than final resting places—they are reflections of history, culture, and art. Across the globe, some cemeteries stand out for their breathtaking...

The phrase "set in stone" evolved metaphorically over time to mean something unchangeable or fixed, reflecting the difficulty of altering inscriptions once they were chiseled into stone. Today, when people...

Have you ever visited a cemetery and found coins lining the edge of a headstone? There are many customs, habits, practices, and traditions in the world, but this one is...

The first national cemeteries began at the start of the Civil War, during the early 1860s, to bury and honor the United States soldiers who fell in battle. By 1862,...

Funerary archaeology combines several branches of archaeology to analyze human remains, gravesites, burials, and ceremonial items to discover what life was like many years ago. There is a wide range...

Throughout our histories and cultures, cemeteries or places where we've buried our dead often echo with the air of mystery and intrigue. From stories told around bonfires to books and...

Beginning in Europe during the mid-12th Century and lasting until the 16th Century,  masons, woodworkers, and architects created things with a particular style, characterized by cavernous spaces with expanses of...

Many travelers around the world are drawn to cemeteries. As they are places that bridge the gap between the past and present, living and dead, as well as being places...