Tombs and Tombstones

How to Trace Your Ancestry Using Your Phone’s Free Tools

Everyday tools and free apps on your mobile device can help you collect, translate and digitize new material for your family-tree files.

By J. D. Biersdorfer

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Are ‘Secret Room’ Drawings by Michelangelo? Now, Visitors Can Judge for Themselves.

Since its discovery nearly 50 years ago, a room beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence covered in sketches has been closed to the public. Next month, that will change.

By Jason Horowitz

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Can TikTok Revive the Dead?

#Gravetok influencers post videos of themselves visiting burial sites, cleaning headstones and following recipes inscribed on them.

By Jessica Lucas

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In Istanbul, Tombs of Religious Figures Still Draw Pilgrims

Turkey’s largest city is dotted with the tombs of religious figures, where pilgrims seek divine intervention. “When you ask for something from God, those who are beloved by God can be a go-between.”

By Ben Hubbard Gulsin Harman and Ivor Prickett