Archaeologists have found evidence of grave robbing while digging at a 19th Century burial ground in West Bromwich.
They set up the venture in 1966 on a 12-acre lot that had been a burial ground for horses.
In Brussels on Sunday, NATO officials said they had spotted what could be a mass burial ground southwest of Pristina in Kosovo.
The site could be a military burial ground, but suspicions were raised because the rows of mounds indicate the bodies were buried in a hurry.
As the days roll steadily by, our fears grow larger, not smaller, until they eventually lead to a burial ground for unfulfilled dreams and untapped potential.
After disposing of its load at the burial ground and making its way through several small villages, the driver had to stop to ask the way.
People are interred in hybrid cemeteries that provide traditional and nontraditional graves, or they can consider to a natural burial ground that prohibits the use of chemicals.
Farther down the road is a plan to expand the burial ground to a patch of adjacent land, since that option could be depleted within five years.
As the days roll steadily by, our fears grow larger, not smaller, until they eventually lead to a burial ground for unfulfilled goals, missed opportunities, and untapped potential.
Tomorrow, the new memorial at New York's African Burial Ground.
The site of the chapel and burial ground in Sandwell Road was excavated by Hereford-based Headland Archaeology while work on the A41 underpass and Providence Place was going on nearby.
Mr Kreckeler said a plan in the 1970s to turn the site into a multi-storey car park was the inspiration for writing his book, called The Brothers Burial Ground, 1719 - 1948.
The find is providing more than just a precise location for the long-lost burial ground, said Nick Elsden, project manager from the Museum of London Archaeology, which is working with Crossrail on its sites.
The burial ground was so large that a machine had to be used to dig a hole, before Keiko was slid across the snow to the grave under the cover of night, with just seven people present.
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Although it is now widely accepted that the site was a burial ground at one point, based on human DNA found in the earth deposits deep underground, the length of time for which this was the case is not certain.
Predictably, in a strictly Catholic France where actors were excommunicated and refused burial in consecrated ground (though churchmen patronised the theatre and wrote plays themselves), the usual dour moral lessons were drawn.
Amateur videos shot by city residents and posted to YouTube showed dozens of corpses wrapped in white shrouds laid out on the ground waiting to be paraded to burial on the shoulders of thousands of mourners.
He added that there were "significant challenges" because of the waterlogged ground, and that any remains found within the burial plot would be examined.
The pictures flashed up on the screen one by one - the huge crowds mourning his death, his body being laid in the ground and, finally, the simple stone tablet marking his burial spot.
But Robert Florence of Historic New Orleans Walking Tours Inc. believes that the facts surrounding the city's burial sites -- which include family tombs that hold generations of remains and sit above ground, preventing caskets from floating away during floods -- are as good as fiction.
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