What if the most honest thing a civilization ever leaves behind is not its monuments, its laws, or its art but the way it buries its dead?
Walk into any cemetery, and you are walking into a conversation that has been going on for centuries. The headstones, the symbols, the pathways, the festivals held year after year at graveside, all of it speaks. Once you know how to listen, you will never pass a burial ground the same way again.
In Cities of Stone: A History of Cemeteries, author Ruby Knight...
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