Markus M. Key and Rebecca K. Rossi, which set out to determine the provenance of Jamestown's black "marble" knight's tombstone. What they determined was unexpected, says Prof. Key. "For the past ...

And what other changes did Gatiss make to Nesbit’s source material? In the original tale, the marble knights rise from their church slabs at 11 o clock on All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween.

The oldest known tombstone in America, long believed to have marked the grave of a knight, has a fascinating backstory that's finally been untangled. The tombstone, unearthed in the Chesapeake ...

The researchers also tentatively linked the tombstone to an actual knight, Sir George Yeardley, but couldn’t confirm the association. Though it has long been known as a black marble tombstone ...

It aimed to “determine the source of the Jamestown’s black ‘marble’ knight’s tombstone.” “Microfossils” examined from samples of the stone suggest that it was imported from Europe ...

and the legend of the village church’s tomb effigies – a pair of marble knights who are said to rise from their slabs on Christmas Eve,” reads the logline. “Jack dismisses this is as mere ...

The study, which is titled "Sourcing the Early Colonial Knight’s Black ‘Marble’ Tombstone at Jamestown, Virginia, USA," argues that the black limestone actually came from Europe – and ...

This secret was taken to the grave. Archeologists believe they have finally uncovered the origins of what is believed to be the oldest gravestone in the United States — which belonged to an ...