But for the final two hours of his 37-year career, Zana wanted one last chance to stand a shift he had held as a young sergeant: keeping watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. “I was Pvt.

Authorities have uncovered a tomb with eleven sealed burials and many items of jewelry. It is the first tomb of its kind to be found in the South Asasif necropolis region and dates back about ...

Alexander the Great visiting the tomb of Achilles. Credit: Flickr / Thomas Hawk CC BY-NC 2.0 Alexander the Great is best remembered for his dramatic conquests. However, another famous event in his ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located at Arlington National Cemetery. It is located on a hill at nearly the perfect geographic center of the cemetery and serves as a ...

Peter’s Basilica in light of the 2025 Jubilee Year — including a new magazine and a livestream of the tomb of St. Peter. Pope Francis will inaugurate the live webcam of the tomb of the apostle ...

The artifacts discovered inside a tomb of 11 Egyptian burials from the height of the country’s Middle Kingdom offer a fresh perspective on the funerary practices from the 12 th and 13 th ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Q: Where is the tomb of the Virgin Mary and what is its significance? A: There are actually two traditions that claim Mary's grave. One is Jerusalem, the other ...

On November 4th, 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen. It was a marvel to behold since the tomb was virtually intact. Shifting desert sands hid the tomb for ...

The first obvious thing to do when trying to locate Alexander the Great’s tomb is see what ancient texts say about it. Ptolemy, who was the governor of Egypt at that time, brought Alexander’s body to ...

The intact burial—unearthed on this day in 1922—contained a “wonderful” cache of objects linked to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Eli Wizevich History Correspondent Tutankhamun's tomb wasn ...

Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb in the city of Asyut, Egypt, just about 200 miles south of Cairo. The excavations took place between Aug. 18 and Sept.

The altar is built over an underground monument identified as the tomb of the apostle. According to church history, the apostles Peter and Paul arrived in Rome at the time of Nero (r. A.D. 54–68).