Tomb

A tomb with a view: Stunning photos of Powązki cemetery and the fascinating stories of the men and women buried within

Designed by Krzysztof M. Bednarski, the sculpture for film director Krzysztof Kieślowski’s gravestone shows two hands forming an oblong space, as if looking through a film camera. Kalbar/TFN

As Poland heads to cemeteries to pay respects to their loved ones, TFN takes a look at possibly the country’s most famous graveyard.

Archaeologists uncover crocodile heads in tombs of ancient Egyptian nobles

The remains of the nine heads were uncovered by a team from the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw working at the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt.

Polish king nicknamed ‘Elbow-high’ because of his shortness may have been taller than thought, say researchers

According to archeologists examining the medieval king’s tomb at Wawel castle in Kraków, the nickname might not even refer to the king’s height, which is thought to have been 120cm.

Investigation launched following rumours that mysterious Lublin ruins belonged to long-forgotten monument to the Unknown Soldier

Although the ruins at the site of the 1st Military Clinical Hospital in Lublin were known for some time, investigations were launched after an intrigued worker recalled stories from post-war doctors at the hospital about their origins.

Another Polish WWII memorial site destroyed in Belarus

A memorial site with tombs of Polish World War Two Home Army (AK) soldiers in north-western Belarus is being levelled to the ground by the Minsk regime services, Lukasz Jasina, a Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman, said on Thursday.

Another Polish WWII memorial site found destroyed in Belarus

The desecrated memorial site in the village of Kaczycze, in the Grodno region of Belarus, was the final resting place for 89 Polish Home Army (AK) soldiers killed during a battle against Soviet NKVD forces near Raviny, Belarus, in January 1945.

Polish archaeologists find ancient tomb of clerk who prepared pharaoh’s secret documents

The 4,300-year-old tomb was discovered in the Egyptian village of Saqqara where, according to hieroglyphs engraved on the tomb’s façade, Egyptologists managed to determine that it belongs to a man named Mehcheczi.

Officials probe ‘masonic tombs’ in move to uncover their forgotten secrets

The U-shaped, underground brick corridor, which is now home to a protected colony of bats, is dug into Warsaw’s escarpment in the south of the city. But although its existence has been known for a long time, what it actually was, when exactly it was built and who built it remain unknown.

Tomb restored for WWII hero dubbed ‘father’ of top secret unit of special agents called Silent Unseen

Born on the 27th of October 1898 in Kielce, Józef Hartman’s significant role in training and mentoring the young Polish soldiers who had volunteered for the special undercover mission, came soon after his arrival to Great Britain in 1940.

Archeological detective work uncovers Poland's largest prehistoric cemetery

The tombs are between 40 and 50 metres long, with the longer walls reinforced with wooden palisades, while the short eastern walls contained an entrance to a sort of tomb chapel. 

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