“Back in ’72, the Agnas flood. The river broke right in the Forty Fort Cemetery. We’re assuming these headstones got washed away from the power of the river breaking," said Colella ...

Whether it was the low typography or another influence that made early New Orleanians switch to aboveground tombs is still up for debate. Here's what historians say.

A Richmond woman was dismayed to discover that her mother's burial site at Maury Cemetery on Richmond's Southside had been relocated without her knowledge.

(JTA) — Four graves were destroyed and others covered by rubble as a flood swept through Beirut’s only Jewish cemetery. The flood in the Lebanese capital on Thursday destroyed a retaining wall ...