August 2011
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Grave overcrowding: 20 ideas on how to solve... →
After the BBC News website ran this story about the shortage of burial space in the UK, many readers emailed suggestions as to alternatives. Here are twenty of the most popular…
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Kathy Reichs joins "Million for a Morgue" campaign →
forensicanth:
Novelist Kathy Reichs has added her name to the growing list of authors keen to raise the profile of the Million for a Morgue campaign, which was launched last month. The high profile addition is likely to boost interest in the project which aims to raise £1 million ($1.63 million) to…
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Sugar Skulls (Calaveras de Azúcar) →
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Sugar Skull Tradition
Sugar art was brought to the New World by Italian missionaries in the 17th century. The first Church mention of sugar art was from Palermo at Easter time when little sugar lambs and angels were made to adorn the side altars in the Catholic Church.
Sugar Skulls are a…
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“The outrage about the “ground zero mosque” has turned very ugly, as this video...”
– Ground Zeros Slave Graves
(via howtobenoladarling)
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Funeral Bundle →
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A funeral bundle is a method of enclosing a corpse before burial, practiced by the Paracas culture of the Peruvian Andes. The well-preserved funeral bundles of the Paracas have allowed archaeologists to study their funeral rituals in detail. The naked body of the deceased is bundled in the…
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New Scientist: Get your body liquefied when you... →
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9/11 Memorial Merlot: Tasteless? →
A Long Island vintner is marketing wine to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the national tragedy — at the jarring price of $19.11 a bottle…
Click to read the article in full.
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King Arthur Pendragon loses human remains legal... →
A druid who went to the High Court to try to stop researchers examining ancient human remains found at Stonehenge has failed in his legal bid.
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Scottish prehistoric mummies made from jigsaw of... →
archaeologicalnews:
DNA tests on British prehistoric mummies revealed they were made of body parts from several different people, arranged to look like one person.
The four bodies discovered in 2001 on South Uist, in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides were the first evidence in Britain of deliberate mummification.
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The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn’t Care to Listen... →
theossuary:
New York Times article from a few years back about the Tarim mummies and the questions they raise:
[…] the Loulan Beauty lies on her back with her shoulder-length hair matted down, her lips pursed in death, her high cheekbones and long nose the most obvious signs that she is not what one thinks of as Chinese.
Click through above to read the full article.
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Ancient Egyptians believed in coiffure after death... →
archaeologicalnews:
Ancient Egyptians wouldn’t be caught dead without hair gel. Style in the afterlife was just as important as it was during life on Earth – and coiffure was key.
To this end, men and women alike would have their tresses styled with a fat-based “gel” when they were embalmed. The evidence of…
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The Catacombs of Paris →
Underneath the streets of most cities is a complex web of tunnels, cables and pipes carrying everything from water to trains, but under the feet of people in Paris exists one of the most complex system of tunnels ever seen.
The BBC’s Christian Fraser has been finding out what lies beneath…
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Frozen in time... →
Slideshow via the BBC of photographs by Murray Ballard, a photographer granted unprecedented access to the world of cryonics…
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The Chirurgeon's Apprentice... →
COOL BLOG ALERT! And before anyone says anything, the above is NOT a spelling mistake! ;o)
Surgeons are amongst the highest paid professionals in the medical world today. They are the ‘miracle-workers’ of the 21st century, providing blood transfusions, heart transplants and prosthetic limb replacements in order to save and transform the lives of their patients.
Nevertheless, the place of the...
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Roman dead baby 'brothel' mystery deepens →
archaeologicalnews:
New research has cast doubt on the theory that 97 infants were killed at a Roman brothel in Buckinghamshire.
In 2008, the remains of the newborn babies were rediscovered packed in cigarette cases in a dusty museum storeroom by Dr Jill Eyers from Chiltern Archaeology.
They were excavated from the…
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Thanatourism →
Great blog about the draw of dark tourism…
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