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Date Item Title
October 14, 2007 Vietnam’s tomb raider finds answers underground
August 14, 2007 Intact Etruscan tomb discovered
November 26, 2006 Digging for the truth at Jamestown
August 14, 2006 Golden dagger from 3,000 BC found in Thracian tomb
June 08, 2006 Talks could lead to professional excavation of historic site
May 07, 2006 Tomb of Early Maya Ruler Believed Found in Guatemala
April 28, 2006 Solving Scotland's oldest murder mystery
April 24, 2006 Forensic scientist digs for details of Kennewick Man
March 02, 2006 Study hopes to piece together lifestyle of Kennewick Man
February 22, 2006 Greek Tomb Find Excites Experts
February 14, 2006 Ancient Greek tomb largest found
October 06, 2005 Female Gambler Skeleton Out of Grave in Iran
June 14, 2005 Archaeologists bid to ID Jamestown skeleton
April 21, 2005 Church of England Allows Jamestown Probe Exhumation
March 13, 2005 Chariot find is a victory for Scots
March 09, 2005 Ethiopia Home to Oldest Two-Footed Skeleton
March 08, 2005 Island storms uncover medieval bones
March 08, 2005 Ancient earrings discovered at Burnt City disprove ornament theory
March 07, 2005 Two sunken warships and the remains of their crews at risk
March 07, 2005 What Really Happened to the Donner Party?
February 27, 2005 Artifacts dug up at light rail bridge site
February 25, 2005 Alpine Iceman Reveals Stone Age Secrets
February 25, 2005 Archaeologists Baffled by Headless Bodies Find
December 26, 2004 7500-year-old body unearthed
December 25, 2004 Digging into mysteries
December 04, 2004 Bones Suggest Women Went to War in Ancient Iran
November 08, 2004 Town Fears Excavation Disturbed Burial Site
October 28, 2004 Skeleton Reveals Lost World Of "Little People"
October 06, 2004 Medieval surgeons were advanced
August 25, 2004 A mystery entombed
August 22, 2004 Access to burial cave sought
August 13, 2004 ARCHAEOLOGY: Digger David unearths an ancient skull
August 10, 2004 Ancient remains to return to Mullingar
August 04, 2004 Crusader-era skeleton discovered during Jaffa excavations
August 04, 2004 City trying to determine what remains in cemetery
August 03, 2004 Digging up new lawsuit
July 27, 2004 Old cemetery found under Quebec city street
July 16, 2004 New skeletons unearthed at towns Roman era dig site
June 29, 2004 Grave excavations tell tales of past traditions
June 26, 2004 Eastern Utah find only one of many secrets held by Utah archaeologists
June 20, 2004 Mysterious Monoliths
June 14, 2004 Digging now rare at Indian locales
June 07, 2004 3,000-year-old tombs likely family cemetery of Chinese cultural icon
May 28, 2004 Bodies Under The Flightpath
May 28, 2004 Digging deep into the past
May 28, 2004 Anger resurfaces over retrieving artifacts
May 27, 2004 Cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago
May 19, 2004 Input wanted on handling of 18th-century remains
April 08, 2004 Cavemans teeth returned home
March 24, 2004 Virginia cemetery containing African etchings provides glimpse to slave-trading
 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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