Kyoto, Japan

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Kairouan, Tunisia

Kaisergruft, Capuchin Church, Vienna

Some of the children of the Empress Maria Theresa.
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Tomb of King Dagobert, Saint-Denis

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Humayun's Tomb, Delhi

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Grave of Golda Meir, Jerusalem

Pere Lachaise, Paris

The grave of Marcel Proust. Not what I would have expected.
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Bunbury, Cheshire

The tomb of Sir Hugh Calveley, in St. Boniface Church.
My parish church usually has a ladder standing about, too. It's too tall to be conveniently stored elsewhere.

Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland

Royal coffins in the crypt.
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A Case of Mistaken Identity

An Egyptian mummy, at the Bolton Museum, in Lancashire, has been identified, with 90% certainty, as one of the sons of Ramses II. It had previously been thought to be a female temple dancer. These things happen, I suppose.
HERE'S the story.

Cork, Ireland

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Les Invalides, Paris

Tomb of the World War I field marshal Ferdinand Foch.
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Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland

I like the big one at the left.

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All Souls' Day, by Franz Skarbina. 1896. Old National Gallery, Berlin.

Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut

Baltimore Cemetery, Warren County, Indiana

Kippel, Switzerland

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Lychgate, St. James Church, Silsoe, Bedfordshire

Grave News

THIS is interesting. An archaeologist, who was a refugee from a smoking ban, at a pub in County Durham, found a seven-hundred year old grave slab built into a wall in a back corridor.

Pyramid of Cestius, Rome

This was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius Epulo, in c18-12 BC.

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