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Graves and memorials through the gate at the of Egyptian Avenue in Highgate Cemetry
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norse burial site
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Stone-hewn graves at Heysham, Lancashire. Believed to be 11th Century.
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Pet Cemetery.
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The discovery of a pre-Viking ship burial in Scandinavia challenges the notion that Vikings were the pioneers of this fascinating tradition. The ancient ship burial was discovered within a mound on Norway’s island of Leka.
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In the Americas, for example, many cultures masked their dead in a fascinating array of styles. We have this one, placed on the face of a ruler from northern Peru who died about 1000 years ago:
The great Mexican city of Teotihuacan buried some of its dead with masks; this one would have been tied on through the holes in the ears:
The Mayans buried the king of Palenque, Kinich Janaab Pakal, in the 600s CE under this stunning jade mask:
Click the link below to read the whole piece and see my favorite one:
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Mysterious skeleton found in Hernán Cortés' palace revealed to be Indigenous woman, not Spanish monk
A skeleton visible within a burial at the entrance of the palace of Hernán Cortés —the Spanish conquistador who caused the fall of the Aztec Empire — is not the remains of a Spanish monk as was long thought. Instead, a new analysis reveals that the bones belonged to a middle-aged Indigenous woman.
When a powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake rattled the Mexican states of Puebla and Morelos as well as Mexico City in 2017, buildings collapsed and thousands of people were injured. The Palace of Cortés, which was built by 1535 and now serves as a museum, was severely damaged, requiring extensive repair work that was completed in early 2023. During this work, researchers took stock of all objects within the museum, including an open burial exhibited at the entrance to the palace. Read more.
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The old and the youngling.
About 7000 years ago, an ageing man in his 60s was buried at Skateholm, Sweden. Next to him, face to face, lays a child of 4-5 years who was buried later. On the child's chest lay jewelry made of bear teeth and pieces of amber. A beautiful display of love, and that the two belonged together in life as in death.
Photo: Statens historiska museer.
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Emile Antoine Bayard - The Evocation of Spirits. Illustation from 'History of Magic' by Paul Christian, 1870.
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Luxury Lacquered Coffin of Marquis Yi: Largest in History
The coffin of the Warring States period was unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (曾侯乙) in Leigudun (擂鼓墩), Suizhou, Hubei, in 1978.
The outer coffin is 3.2 meters long, 2.1 meters wide, 2.2 meters high, and weighs about 7 tons. It is composed of 10 copper columns embedded within 10 wooden boards of the same height. The painting on the surface of one of the coffins depicts weird and armed anthro-zoomorphic beings.
Displayed in Hubei Provincial Museum (湖北省博物馆).
Photo: ©喵星人的小姐
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