This trailblazer was responsible for some of the country’s most striking civic and university campus structures ...

The Balakrishna Puram burial ground, in Ward 163, Alandur Zone, will be closed for maintenance purposes from March 31 to April 24, the Greater Chennai Corporation said in a notice on Wednesday.

Approximately 170,000 people die every day around the world – that’s around 62 million deaths in 2024 alone. The cumulative effect of this has led to what has been termed a “burial crisis”, with most ...

It’s a place of rest, but also a place for living. In addition to the natural burial ground, Panorama has also started offering walking tours that allow the living to connect with the earth and ...

Ofelia Opocué’s life has been shaped by loss, she says. Twenty-three years ago, the FARC gave her family an ultimatum: leave ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

The coercion of widows into participating in unwanted rituals contradicts the African philosophy of Ubuntu which emphasises ...

The Ancestors Garden reckons with our past history of Black resilience and Black oppression. Together, we must also reflect ...

In some South African cultures, when burying a twin, his sibling is supposed to enter the grave to allegedly help prepare ...

The town of Bucha has announced the winner of an architectural competition to design a memorial at the Church of St Andrew the First-Called, where 116 innocent people were buried in a mass grave ...

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