It's a sanctuary. It's a burial ground of their ancestors.

Kyrkhlyar is the burial site of forty martyrs who laid down their lives for Islam.

Iran might eventually turn into the graveyard of Obama s dream of a world without nuclear weapons.

The funeral procession reached the burial site, where a hole had been dug that smelled of fresh earth.

It is thought that the complex was used as a burial site for kings, queens and other members of the royal family.

As a result, a criminal case was initiated under Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation Destruction, damage, or desecration of burial sites .

Greenery will serve as a living fence that will separate the relaxation areas and the territory just outside that is designated for burial.

990 gold objects, weighing more than 1.5 kg, were recovered from just one burial site, known as Grave No. 43 .

Ships towed to the coast a drilling rig (I ll say that again slowly a drilling rig), which cut a few holes into the cliff, to determine the boundaries of the cemetery.

Students organized a small rally in the old Vyšehradcemetery, the burial grounds of Smetana and Dvořák in a fortress overlooking the city.

Students organized a small rally in the old Vyšehrad cemetery, the burial grounds of Smetana and Dvořák in a fortress overlooking the city.

The African Burial Ground, discovered in 1991, is six blocks away from the proposed Muslim community center.

The Mexican general attorney s office will send a different set of remains from a mass grave discovered in a ravine and the Cocula river to the University of Innsbruck in Austria for identification.

And so many of these diseases, like asthma and certain kinds of cancers, are on the increase around places where our filthy toxic waste is dumped.

With mountains of waste sitting in bags in simple stores that will inevitably degrade, planning and developing centralized disposal facilities has become a critical issue.

Dubbed now as the Maguindanao or Ampatuan Massacre, (after the town where the mass graves were found), it has gained so much international attention, it now has its own page on Wikipedia

Since the first weeks of October, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF, in Spanish) has been investigating the illegal mass graves located in the municipalities of Iguala and Colula in the south of Mexico at the request of the victims' families.

St. Petersburg based LJ user timoha spb and Twitter users Zak_r2 and theproof are among those who are posting photos of smoke from the fire at the Krasnyi Bor toxic waste disposal site.

The top priority should be a coordinated effort by Europe, the United States, and the other G 8 5 countries to build demonstration plants to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

But, along with the precious metals, e waste also contains potent toxic chemicals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants. The short term consequences of using landfills, shallow pits, or incinerators to get rid of e waste is the release of these noxious chemicals, which adversely impact ecological processes, wildlife, and human health.

The short term consequences of using landfills, shallow pits, or incinerators to get rid of e waste is the release of these noxious chemicals, which adversely impact ecological processes, wildlife, and human health.

The test is not whether traces of those weapons remain, as such traces will be found at disposal sites, but whether those weapons were poised for use in threatening amounts.

It is important to point out that out of the total number of remains found in this place, 28 were recovered initially from five graves by Guerrero s PGJ (the district attorney s office), and the remaining two by the PGR (the attorney general's office) from a sixth grave.

The remains of what was once the largest slave trade port in the Americas came to the surface in 2011 after almost 200 years buried, when construction work on Rio de Janeiro's port area began as part of the city's preparations ahead of the Olympic Games it would host five years later.