Tombstones are often somber reminders of life's inevitable end, but occasionally, they offer a glimpse of humor that ...

This means even nonreligious people might include these symbols on their headstones. Related: 60+ Famous Epitaphs That Are Cemetery Stars Ancient Egyptians frequently mummified their pets to have ...

in order to erect a headstone. An architect, Robert Burn, was commissioned to produce one, and Burns composed the following epitaph. The two additional stanzas were written in his Second ...

Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 301-334 (34 pages) More than 100 previously undocumented Hebrew epitaphs (many of them fragmentary) dating from the fifteenth to the ...

Tombstones often have epitaphs and symbols carved on them that can tell modern viewers about their ancestors, what they ...