Anthropologist David Ian Howe shared beautifully heartbreaking epitaphs that ancient ancient Greco-Romans had inscribed on ...

Tombstones are often somber reminders of life's inevitable end, but occasionally, they offer a glimpse of humor that transcends the grave. These hilarious epitaphs prove that wit can endure even ...

in order to erect a headstone. An architect, Robert Burn, was commissioned to produce one, and Burns composed the following epitaph. The two additional stanzas were written in his Second ...

Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 301-334 (34 pages) More than 100 previously undocumented Hebrew epitaphs (many of them fragmentary) dating from the fifteenth to the ...

To Ernest Leland, No. I tombstone designer in the U ... “to make an earnest plea for the revival of the epitaph. . . . The power of words, suitable and just words, is very great.