Twelve years ago Norfolk County native Jean Silvester Spencer began working on updating an edition of “Tombstone Inscriptions of Norfolk County” that was originally published in 1979. Spencer and a ...

When people use the expression “carved in stone,” they are referencing something they regard as permanent, unchanging. Inscriptions carved in tombstones are inscribed in stone, usually granite or ...

Early Chinese migrants sailed all the way here to Southeast Asia for a better living, and many were not able to return to their homeland before their lives came to an end. As such, Chinese cemeteries ...

For centuries, people have marked graves and commemorated the dead. Stones were originally used by prehistoric man to keep wild animals from digging up the gravesite. Today cemetery markers are ...

An ancient tombstone with an inscription in Hebrew, which was found in Ramanthapuram in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India, may shed light on a forgotten Jewish community in the country.

RAMANATHAPURAM: After a tombstone with Hebrew inscriptions was found near Periyapattinam area of Ramanathapuram, historians deciphered it to be one of the oldest Hebrew inscriptions found in India. An ...

Joel Cheskin's tombstone will greet visitors to his grave with a funny, if not morbid, golf joke. VICTORALCORN.COM There’s nothing grave about these inscriptions. Tombstones can poignantly preserve ...