But she also wrote on archaeology for the Guardian, after protests about the burial of London theatre sites associated with William Shakespeare – the Rose and the Globe.
Max Beauvoir, a Vodou priest, protested the lack of dignity in mass burials, stating, "... it is not in our culture to bury people in such a fashion, it is desecration".
There has been some protest during Duterte's presidency, notably over the burial of Ferdinand Marcos in the Heroes' Cemetery in November, a hurried, sneaky affair accomplished after the Supreme Court threw out several petitions seeking to stop it.
After the burial of the fiddle the dancing is resumed.
Some of them tolled at the burial of Nikolai Gogol.
That would truly mark the burial of the past.
Following the burial of Berkin Elvan – a teenager who died after being hit in the head by a teargas canister during last summer's protests – two more deaths have set the mood in Turkey further on edge.
Recently, I attended the burial of an important friend.
There are similarities between the chariot burials of the Arras Culture and groups of La Tene burials in northern Europe, where the burial of carts was also practised.
He then participates in the burial of the real Locke.
