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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

What Does That Gravestone Say? PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 04 October 2007

New scanning techniques make worn gravestones legible, with plenty of other scientific possibilities. You’ve probably wandered through a graveyard and noticed that some older inscriptions are so worn that they’re illegible. Perhaps you’ve even wondered about the stories behind them, whose bones are lying there. Thanks to a new project you might be able to find out one day. Scientists at the Ambient Intelligence Lab at Carnegie Mellon Cylab have developed a way to take hi-res scans of the tombstones that can reveal the carving. After that, the scans are matched against a database of carvings to show the words.

To date, the most advanced technique has been hand-tracing by archaeologists, which is hardly hi-tech.
“We have designed special filters of 3D data that can detect curvature or linear features on a surface," Dr. Yung Cai, director of the AI Lab, told the BBC. "This is similar to the human visual experience - we usually see the gazed area in high resolution but the peripheral area in a blurred vision."
Researchers have been refining their technique at the graveyard at Old St. Luke’s Church in Pittsburgh.
Dr. Cai anticipates that the technology could be used to help unmanned vehicles map ruins, as well as aid doctors with tongue inspections, or possibly even predict tsunamis by examining ocean surface patterns.

http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/14371/printer_friendly/what_does_that_gravestone_say
 
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