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An Early Marksville culture site located near Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi, on a bluff 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Mississippi River, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the mouth of the Big Black River. [7] The site has an extant burial mound, and may have possibly had two others in the past. The site is believed to have been occupied ...
It has been known by several names over the years, many spelling variations on Ancient Burial Ground. It is one of the earliest graveyards in New England and the oldest colonial cemetery in New London County. The hillside lot of 1.5 acres (6,000 m 2) and adjoins the site of New London's first meeting house.
Archaeologists discovered an ancient graveyard with mostly children interred between 800 and 200 BC. With the remains of nearly 40 children, all under age 6, experts don’t know the reason behind ...
Opinion: Fayetteville is home to many historic cemeteries. They are filled with tales of yesteryear.
Thermopolium in Herculaneum. In the ancient Greco-Roman world, a thermopolium (pl.: thermopolia), from Greek θερμοπώλιον (thermopōlion), i.e. cook-shop, [1] literally "a place where (something) hot is sold", was a commercial establishment where it was possible to purchase ready-to-eat food.
1,900-year-old winery — that made drinks for ancient Romans — found in France. See it Ancient trove of gems, coins unearthed at ‘magical place’ in Italy.
When the second meeting house became outdated, the town elected in 1785 to build a third meeting house in a location about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) from the Old Burying Ground. A new cemetery, now known as the Mayflower Cemetery, was established next to the new meeting house on Tremont Street. Consequently, the Old Burying Ground fell out of use by ...
High on a hilltop overlooking the Ben & Jerry's plant in Waterbury, Vt., is a small plot of land surrounded by a picket fence. Inside, tree limbs cast ominous shadows over a collection of nearly ...