Tag: Cemeteries

America’s Black Cemeteries and Three Women Trying to Save Them

In Georgia, Texas and Washington, D.C., three Black women are working to preserve desecrated African American burial grounds and the stories they hold.

Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead

The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.

Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave

In 17th-century Europe, the dead were a constant threat to rise again and bedevil the living. Now archaeologists have found the remains of a suspected child revenant.

Ian Fishback, U.S. Soldier Who Called Out Torture in Iraq, Is Buried in Arlington

Ian Fishback, who left the Army with the rank of major, was a dissident-in-uniform who died at the age of 42 after entering a dizzying mental health spiral.