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It contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II, a total of 16,859, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New Guinea and the Philippines.

It is the largest of all American overseas military cemeteries, occupying over 150 acres on a prominent plateau with a breathtaking view of the Manila skyline. Here rest more than 17,000 American servicemen and women.

According to archaeologist Larry Lahren of Livingston, a two-year-old child and dozens of stone artifacts were buried together by late ice-age hunters 11,000 years agoat the base of a rocky bluff along a bend in the upper Shields River.

Wadi Al-Salam cemetery in Iraq is the world's largest graveyard. More than six million bodies including those of prophets, kings, scientists, are buried in the cemetery, spread over an area of 917 hectares. According to UNESCO, burials have been taking place in the cemetery for more than 1400 years.

The Taforalt cave in Morocco is possibly the oldest known cemetery in the world. It was the resting place of at least 34 Iberomaurusian individuals, the bulk of whom have been dated to 15,100 to 14,000 years ago.

The graveyard is inhabited by people who pull bones from tombs to build “apartments.” It's an entire slum community, populated by gang members, runaways, sex workers, and laborers who rank among the poorest of the world's poor.

Because identification of remains was difficult at best, some Confederate soldiers were unintentionally reburied in national cemeteries, taken for US soldiers. Confederate prisoners of war were often interred in “Confederate sections” within the national cemeteries.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is Arlington National Cemetery's most iconic memorial.