New York leaders hope to protect a historic African burial ground in Elmhurst, Queens. In 2011, a woman's body was discovered buried in an iron coffin on the property. Archeologists later determined ...

ELMHURST, Queens (WABC) -- A roughly one-acre site in Elmhurst, Queens, that is facing foreclosure is drawing renewed calls for preservation because of its history as a burial ground for free Black ...

Reb Yehuda Aharon Widavsky Z”L, one of Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivors and a longtime Sochatchover and Modzitzer chossid, was niftar on the first night of Rosh Hashanah at the remarkable age of ...

“People believed in a brighter future,” explains Excoffier, who worked with photographer Matthieu Salvaing to compile these forward-looking projects into Modernist Beirut, published by Éditions Norma.

Between recording two albums and playing the European festival route, Beirut have stayed busy this decade. But Zach Condon and his bandmates haven’t been able to cross the pond in that time, and ...

Egypt’s Theban necropolis holds over 400 tombs, a rich resource for archaeologists eager to learn more about that region’s ancient history. A new paper published in the journal Frontiers in ...

More and more people are choosing what’s being called a green or natural burial. In natural burials, there are no chemicals or embalming, and no concrete vaults or expensive caskets. Family and ...

A remarkable reconstruction of a historic wooden shul has been completed near Russia’s Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, marking a significant milestone in preserving Jewish heritage ...

The discovery of 1,300-year-old ship nails in a burial mound in Norway raises new questions about who was actually entombed there. Archaeologists equipped with a metal detector have unearthed iron ...

Where do babies come from? According to one of the 7-year-old friends in “A Sad and Beautiful World,” the process goes like this: “Mom drinks wine, he gives her a nice massage, and that’s how it’s ...

(RNS) — Supporters of the Crescent Gardens Cemetery, a dedicated Muslim burial site, say they need the graves. But some residents cite concerns about groundwater contamination. RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif ...

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT — Israel said its military attacked Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday after the Lebanese armed group fired ⁠into Israeli territory, and Lebanon’s Civil Defense ...