On April 15, 1912, over 1,500 lives were lost in the northern Atlantic from the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a ship dubbed as, “unsinkable.” To this day, it is considered one of the worst accidents in nautical history and is still investigated to this day, including offering tours of the wreckage starting in 2018. The […]
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Technology helps Green high school students preserve cemetery
A group of high school students in Green, OH applied modern technology to assist in preserving a historical cemetery on the April 8 & 9 weekend, thanks in part to a University of Akron Professor. The Klinefelter Cemetery in Green, OH is one of the first cemeteries in the area and is the final resting place for […]
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Ancient Jewish cemetery found in Rome
The ancient city of Rome never ceases to reveal pieces of its history to the world and, with new real estate being as sparse as it is, last month’s discovery at a building restoration by archaeologists has helped to locate the long-vanished Campus Iudeorum, or Field of the Jews, jewish cemetery. Historians were well-aware that the […]
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179 Unmarked Graves Located with Technology
The Oakwood Cemetery in Tyler, TX is an older cemetery. It was established in 1846, with its first occupant being laid to rest in 1852. The cemetery even has a mass grave that was used for confederate soldiers of the Civil War called the Soldier’s Plot. One of the sections lost to time was a […]
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Long-lost Cemetery Found
Aquinas College is a small, catholic college in Nashville, Tennessee, but they are looking to expand. Well, at least that was the goal until late last month when “a worker leveling the ground in front of a new residence hall saw something unusual peeking through the soil,” (AT). That “something unusual” turned out to be the headstone of Charles […]
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