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Ruins on Mount Nemrut, Turkey, burial site of kings, date from the first century B.C. You can find lots of interesting info here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nemrut
“Shroud burial at Greenhaven Preserve, South Carolina. A green burial – or natural burial – is defined as a burial alternative that allows the body to be returned to the earth and naturally recycled into new life without the use of toxic embalming
Photograph by Zhang Xiaoli, Xinhua via Fame/Barcroft To protect it from drying out, a worker sprays water onto a millennia-old chariot recently unearthed in the city of Luoyang (map) in central China. Overall, 5 chariots and 12 horse skeletons were found
For centuries the only record humanity had of a boar’s tusk helmet was a description in Homer’s Iliad. Through the years scholars assumed that Homer had just made up some fantasy helmet that never existed. But then archaeologists began to
At 30 meters below sea level near a lighthouse called La Fourmigue, off the Cap d’Antibes, lies the remains of a 1000m² underwater miniature French town complete with houses and buildings up to a meter high, a church, town square, an amphitheatre and
A statue of a sleeping angel in Highgate Cemetery
A truth window (or truth wall) is an opening in a wall surface, created to reveal the layers or components within the wall. In a strawbale house, a truth window is often used to show the walls are actually made from straw bales. A small section of a wall
Thomas Wright presents an alternate view of the Milky Way galaxy in cross section. Plates XXXI and XXXII show the universe filled with many systems like our own, each a star-filled shell surrounding its own “eye of Providence” - from An
“Foundling House” | Photographer: Coal Father, 2013
Uhm…er… this is very strange and a bit disturbing Full-size image + continuation is here - http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/0e/6c/1e/0e6c1e4d9c943d5ef6cce0793d366c09.jpg
Wax vanitas, Europe, 1701-1800 Vanitas are works of art intended to remind the viewer of the shortness of human life, the uselessness of vanity and the certainty of death. This example features many symbols typical for this type of object, such as a skull
Just beautiful
Feet of Pharaoh Ramses I. He resided unrecognized for many years in a museum in Niagara Falls, Canada. (It is possible that Rameses I is the great-grandfather of the biblical Moses).
Headstone of Lillie. A cemetery in England.
Templar Church, London. Gargoyle in The Round
The Proper Way To Ship A Human Head. Genpei Akasegawa - “Impound Object : Mask”. Circa 1963. 37cm x 25cm x 19cm. This is a Mask Wrapped in Japanese Yen Notes.
Red lichens grow on grave in Tasmania
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Monstrorum Historia (History of Monsters) late 1500s, a compendium of monstrous and human hybrid races. Here shown are the Cynocephali, dog-head humans said to inhabit a island in the far East. Not monsters in the sense of inspiring
The little sea devil of the Arcturus. The Arcturus adventure, New York, Putnam,1926
Historic Eastham Village, old graveyard (this is infrared photography).
No one is sure exactly when this charnel house originated, but the earliest references, “both of which describe ‘an orderly pile of dead men’s bones’ in the 'charnel house’ on the north side of the church,” date from
Peru - Explorer Kanno Rikio, Skulls at Inca Ruins, Japanese postcard
New Orleans, US. Hurricane Katrina, parish Saint Bernard, September 2005 (Donatien Garnier). Collectif Argos.
Detail from a gravestone at Colonial Williamsburg
Mask of Shame - Disgrace. Wrought Iron. German. Circa 1650.
Just beautiful.
The Weerdinge men were two naked bog bodies found in Drenthe, the Netherlands, in the southern part of Bourtanger Moor in 1904. Radiocarbon dating shows that the two likely died between ca.160 BC to ca.220 AD. At first, it was believed that one of the
Skeleton showing the effects of leprosy, Netherlands [?], 1250-1500: The right and left feet show the devastating effects of leprosy on the bones of the body. This erosion and damage, caused by the decay of protective fatty tissue, does not occur in all
Cemetery Cat
3 theories of Time Travel
Peruvian 8-10 mo. old baby died 6500 years ago.
The clurichaun is the cousin of the leprechaun. Irish stereotypes aside, it’s a constantly drunken little fellow that likes to have a fight and then go joyriding on sheep or dogs. The clurichaun is considered the evil alternative to the leprechaun,
‘The Hum’ is an unexplained low-pitched sound heard in many locations worldwide. It was first reported in the 1960s in England. Roughly 2-10% of the population can hear it in affected locations. Its source has been difficult to track in most
The world map according Martianus Capella De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (~ AD 400.) Schematic zone map to Macrobius, 9th cent.
The Guanjuato Mummies - are considered to be amongst the strangest and most horrifying in the world. Contorted faces on some of the mummies give credence to the belief that some of them were buried alive. After author Ray Bradbury visited the catacombs
Burial hands.The body of a one-year-old boy who died of dehydration is prepared for burial at Jalozai refugee camp.The child’s family,originally from North Afghanistan,had sought refuge in Pakistan from political instability and the consequences
Tudor sword of Henry VIII @ Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1500-1600, rock crystal and gilt silver
Patent Drawing for R. J. Spaldings Flying Machine, 03/05/1889
L0058797 Human skull illustrating different methods of trephination Credit: Science Museum London http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellcomeimages/6880272704/in/set-72157629694243291
human embryo face at about 5 weeks
(From right to left): Scalp - Periosteum - Bone - Dura Mater - Arachnoid Mater - Pia Mater - Brain Tissue
Just beneath the skull is a tough, leathery layer called the dura mater
In 1934, a Swedish archeologist discovered hundreds of ancient mummies buried under boats in a mysterious cemetery in a remote desert in the Xinjang region of China. The location, which is featured rivers and lakes thousands of years ago, was lost until
Tattoos still visible on the skin of a Tarim Basin mummy. The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1900 BCE to 200 CE.
The shoemaker (late 19th century)
The 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: They bored holes into the utility corridors behind their cell walls. They built rubber rafts out of raincoats, and used toilet paper, cardboard, cement chips, and human hair from the floor of the barbershop to create
Male Lizard figurine was found at Al Ubaíd archeological site in Iraq. It belongs to a such called Ubaíd period, dating 4000 - 5900 BCE, which predates the Sumerian culture. The left head object authenticity unknown but there is no explanation for
Abarimon is the name of a legendary race of people native to a country of the same name. The people of Abarimon had backwards feet, but in spite of this handicap were able to run at great speed. They lived side by side with wild animals and attempts to
Old Burying Ground Cemetery, Beaufort, NC - dates back to 1711, housing those who died in the Revolutionary, Civil and Tuscarora Indian Wars, along with residents of Beaufort’s past. One story surrounding the cemetery is that of a young girl buried
Day Of The Dead Corkscrew
Voodoo doll, 4th century, Egypt
The Mummies of Guanajuato Mexico.
Hand of a mummy, showing off ancient tattoos.
George Davey was sentenced to one month’s hard labor in Wandsworth Prison in 1872 for stealing two rabbits. He was ten years old.
Egyptian mummy from the Louvre museum
Mummy, Rakanji temple, Japan
Mary Todd Lincoln mourning veil.
DUKE OF YORK 1827 PIN MEMORIAL MOURNING ENGLAND ANTIQUE PAINTED PORTRAIT ROYALTY. ū,000.00
Macabre collections #7—Medical Oddities—Peter the Great’s “Kunstkammer” is the result of 15 years of collecting the oddities and the rarities of Russia and the world, before making it available to the public in 1719. Animals with two