"We have interpreted the square pit as a construction to help create good airflow for a [cremation] pyre above ground." In this common Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066) burial ritual, the body would ...

Of all the city's attractions, New Orleans' cemeteries are a one-stop shop for learning about family traditions, history, Voodoo, jazz music and burial practices for above-ground tombs.

"When I walk through a cemetery and I'm reading these names and thinking about them, they live again, just for a moment, and ...