Month: January 2026
My Visit to Highgate Cemetery: A First-Hand Experience
Highgate Cemetery is not merely a burial ground. It is a palimpsest—layered with history, ideology, grief, vegetation, neglect, revival, and a faint but persistent whisper of the Gothic imagination. Visiting Highgate is less like strolling through a cemetery and more like stepping into a contested archive, where nature and memory wrestle constantly for dominance. I
The Lost Cemeteries of the World: Forgotten Burial Grounds Rediscovered
Cemeteries are meant to be permanent. That, at least, is the promise they make. Stone replaces flesh, names are carved into marble, and memory is given an address. Yet history has a habit of breaking promises. Across the world, entire cemeteries have vanished—buried, erased, built over, submerged, or simply forgotten. These lost cemeteries are not
How Different Philosophies Influence Burial Practices
How a society buries its dead is never accidental. Burial practices are philosophical fingerprints—quiet, material expressions of how humans understand life, death, the soul, memory, and time. Whether a body is preserved, burned, exposed, composted, or dissolved, the method tells a story long before any epitaph does. Philosophy, in this sense, is not confined to
Preserving Cemetery Art: How Conservationists Save Historic Monuments
Walk through an old cemetery and you’ll notice something unsettling: names fading, angels losing their faces, marble flaking like old parchment. Cemeteries are often described as “cities of the dead,” but in truth they are more like open-air archives—fragile libraries written in stone. When a gravestone erodes or a sculpture collapses, we don’t just lose