A pall-covered vault containing ashes of the deceased awaits burial before an All Souls’ Day rite of committal in 2019 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, Md. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese ...
It’s an interesting concept — a burial urn as a time capsule, a collection box of memories to pass into the future. In actuality, the concept traces back at least as far as the pharaohs, whose tombs ...
Chennai, June 20: Evidence of a prehistoric burial custom of interring dead people in pots has again surfaced in Tamil Nadu with the chance discovery of six “burial urns” in Tirunelveli district. The ...