International Heritage News - Religious Sites & Cemeteries

Religious sites and cemeteries are grouped together here because of the burial ceremonies (and burial architecture) reflected the religious beliefs of past societies. Read the International Heritage News Network to see how the importance of religion in many societies is often best illustrated in the elaborate religious architecture and burial ceremonies undertaken, both of which require specific research and conservation techniques!

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Tradition and technology at the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem

The 1833 illustration of the interior of the Church of the Nativity is in the public domain The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was insc

“Behind the walls of Tutankhamun’s Tomb”—nothing!

"Egyptian officials had claimed in 2015 that there was a "90 percent" chance that something was behind the walls of Tutankhamen's tomb."...

China, Buddhism, and trade – copper to soy beans along the new Silk Road

Perhaps the most lasting legacy of the Silk Roads has been their role in bringing cultures and peoples in contact with each other, and...

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