Dearly Aparted Traditional Cache
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A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term cemetery (from Greek wrod mening sleeping place) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground.
Cemeteries in the Western world are the place where the final ceremonies of death are observed. These ceremonies or rites differ according to cultural practice and religious belief.
Various conditions in the late 18th century and throughout the 19th century led to the burial of the dead in graveyards being discontinued.
Among the reasons for this were:
• A very sharp rise in the size of the population during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution
• Continued outbreaks of highly infectious diseases in towns and cities due to lack of public hygiene. Many graveyards in cities were located on land enclosed within the city walls.
• Limits to, and lack of, space in graveyards for new headstones and corpses.
• A growing resistance in existing churches to bury dead who had never attended their church despite being legally obliged to do so for any "parishioner".
As a consequence of these reasons, city authorities, national governments and places of worship all changed their regulations for burials. In many European states, burial in graveyards was outlawed altogether either by royal decrees or government legislation.
In some cases, skeletons were exhumed from graveyards and moved into ossuaries or catacombs. A large action of this type occurred in 18th century Paris when human remains were transferred from graveyards all over the city to the Catacombs of Paris. The bones of an estimated 6 million people are to be found there.
However, in most places across Europe completely new places of burial were established away from heavily populated areas and outside of old towns and city centers. Many new cemeteries became municipally owned, and thus independent from churches and their churchyards, however even these were still segregated by the faith of the deceased to be buried there.
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The cache is located in a spot where one can clearly see the white section, the Muslim section and the black section. It seems that this cemetery is not used any more.
PLEASE NOTE: You do not need to get close to any of the graves to retrieve the cache.
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