What can a linguist learn from a gravestone?

Bone bread, tortoise tombstones, and a camera collection. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. October 31, 2018 Written in Stone Gravestone inscriptions are a valuable and extremely under-studied corpus of linguistic data. By examining these memorials, researchers can attempt to answer questions about who was buried below and what was important to them. Read More → Bone Bread During a siege in 1590, desperation drove Parisians to disinter skeletons from cemeteries and grind the bones into flour. Read more → Arlington's Hidden History Before Arlington was a national cemetery, it was Robert E. Lee's homestead, and a tent city where occupying Union troops buried their dead. Read more → Tortoise Tombstones In ancient China, adding a tortoise to a gravestone served to emphasize the goodness of the dead. Read more → 'Stone Babies' A fetus can turn to stone in its mother’s body and go undiscovered for decades. Read more → PALERMO, ITALY Stunning Church This mosaic-lined, 12th-century house of worship was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek. Read more → LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Camera Collection The clubhouse for the American Society of Cinematographers is a cinephile's paradise. Read more → Food & Drink Sugar, Booze, and Fire Feuerzangenbowle, a German Christmas drink, consists of mulled wine and a flaming, rum-soaked sugar loaf. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222