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                    [Title] => Manila North Cemetery tombs desecrated
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Most of the apartment-type tombs at the Manila North Cemetery have been desecrated, an official said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/985/fyie.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 897188 [Title] => New cemetery endangers Egypt's ancient necropolis [Summary] =>

In this more than 4,500-year-old pharaonic necropolis, Egypt's modern rituals of the dead are starting to encroach on its ancient ones. Steamrollers flatten the desert sand, and trucks haul in bricks as villagers build rows of tombs in a new cemetery nearly up to the feet of Egypt's first pyramids and one of its oldest temples.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-15 07:12:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 834542 [Title] => Whirldwind displaces 2 bodies in Malabon cemetery [Summary] =>

Two cadavers buried in a public cemetery in Malabon City were "displaced" after their tombs were destroyed by a whirlwind on Friday morning.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-03 11:05:56 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 577753 [Title] => 57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Egypt [Summary] =>

Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Sunday.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-24 16:09:21 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 562316 [Title] => Somalis protest against al-Qaeda linked militants [Summary] =>

Hundreds of women and children marched through Somalia's capital yesterday to protest the destruction of tombs of Somali clerics, some a century old, by al-Qaeda-linked militants wielding sledgehammers and pickaxes.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-30 01:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 539565 [Title] => Egypt discovers new workers' tombs near pyramids [Summary] =>

Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new set of tombs from the workers who built the great pryamids, shedding new light on how the laborers lived and ate more than 4,000 years ago, the antiquities department said Sunday.

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Seven tombs unearthed at a construction site in Pasay City last week contained the remains of large pedigreed dogs that died between 1910 and 1940, not human skeletons.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510167 [AuthorName] => Mauro Dionisio [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5938/sfthumbv.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201591 [Title] => Don’t leave your dead people with me [Summary] => How long since I was last here? Will I remember where they are? Serenity, I remember that word from somewhere. Maybe that’s what the section is called. Maybe they’re buried there. I walk up and down between the tombs and see the man watching me, sun-browned, wearing wraparound sunglasses, a blue guard. Imagine having a security guard at a memorial park! What crime is he trying to prevent here? He smiles at me. It must be good to have someone to smile at. Obviously, I’m not a mourner.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135494 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805260 [AuthorName] => Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) ) )
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