Grave News

There seems to be a hell of a mess at Arlington National Cemetery. HERE'S the story.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Lychgates in West Sussex

Bignor
Clayton
Pulborough
Bramber
Ardingley

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Finis Gloriae Mundi

By Juan de Valdes Leal, 17th century.

A Gravedigger

By Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, 1871.

The Premature Burial

By Antoine Wiertz, 1854.
No laughing matter. It's been estimated that at least one in ten burials before 1920 were premature.

Royal Crypt, Riddarholm Church, Stockholm, Sweden

Carl XII
Carl XII's remains, photographed when the tomb was opened in 1916. That bullet hole spared Sweden a lot of trouble.
Carl XI
Frederick I
Queen Ulrica Eleonora


Monday, September 7, 2009

Charlottenburg, Germany

Mausoleum of King Friedrich Wilhelm III and Queen Louise of Prussia.