January 2013
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PALACES is a unique art project by Gina Czarnecki which will create a magical sculpture out of milk teeth donated by the public.
The PALACE will grow over time like a coral reef, to form a fantastical palace-like structure made of thousands of milk teeth donated by children around the UK.
We need your milk teeth in order to create the PALACE!
Visit palaces.org.uk for updates, news and...
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Archaeological dig finds that ancient groups... →
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MEXICO CITY.- Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH-Conaculta) keep acquiring knowledge of funerary practices in the ancient groups that inhabited the north of Sonora, such as the incineration and burial (in pots) of their departed, a custom that has been…
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Sicilian Mummies Bring Centuries to Life →
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Arrayed in crypts and churches, with leering skulls and parchment skin, the desiccated dead of Sicily have long kept mute vigil.
But now, centuries later, these creepy cadavers have plenty to say.
Five years into the Sicily Mummy Project, six macabre collections are offering scientists a…
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'SECRET GYPSY GRAVES' TERROR →
CEMETERY boss fears for her life because she exposed a racket that may have allowed gypsies to bury their dead on the cheap.
It could mean that up to 30 bodies will have to be exhumed. Some families may even have spent years tending the wrong graves.
Debbie Mowatt, the supervisor, says children have been threatened and an insider says someone scrawled graffiti on her van with a message “along...
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North Korean cannibalism fears amid claims... →
Reports from inside the secretive famine-hit pariah state, North Korea, claim a man has been executed after murdering his two children for food.
Shocking reports claim North Koreans are turning to cannibalism including details of one man who dug up his grandchild’s corpse to eat and another who boiled his child and ate the flesh.
Details of the incidents were reported by the Asia Press,...
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TV's Time Team working with soldiers wounded in... →
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“Today is the day of the rather special Time Team Episode where we will be assisting personnel who have been injured in Afghanistan, carry out an excavation at Barrow Clump, as part of their Operation Nightingale. “This is an archaeology project which helps aid the rehabilitation of personnel who have been injured, both mentally and physically. It uses the quiet, yet...
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Mass Human Sacrifice? Pile of Ancient Skulls Found →
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Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of skulls in Mexico that may have once belonged to human sacrifice victims. The skulls, which date between A.D. 600 and 850, may also shatter existing notions about the ancient culture of the area.
The find, described in the January issue of the journal Latin…
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Rock star shrines: from the Bolan tree to the... →
As Johnny Cash’s hometown prepares its tribute, we look at where rock fans can head to get in touch with other dead heroes…
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NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTION TO 40,000 YEAR OLD... →
Detailed examination of samples of ancient DNA has revealed the genetic makeup of humans living circa 40,000 years ago in an area near what is now Beijing in China.
An international team of researchers including Svante Pääbo and Qiaomei Fu of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA extracted from the leg of an...
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Kim Jong-il’s Tomb: 'All The Dramatic Doom And... →
Just like Lenin, Mao and Ho Chi Minh before him, the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has joined the exclusive club of pickled dictators on display for all eternity.
North Korean officials unveiled Kim Jong-il’s embalmed body to a select audience in December at Pyongyang’s renovated Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, which also houses his father and state founder, the late President Kim...
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Call for Morse: Skeleton found in Oxford college →
It is the sort of discovery that would have had Inspector Morse grumpily downing his pint and climbing into the red Jaguar.
An Oxford University college was cordoned off today after builders dug up a human skeleton a day after a bullet casing was also found nearby.
The intact skeleton was found in Wadham College this morning lying in a burial position close to 400-year-old buildings,...
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25 Unusual Deaths That Will Leave You Scratching... →
All human beings have one thing in common – they die. It is a tragic, yet inevitable part of life that has been happening since the dawn of humanity. Some people wish to die peacefully in their sleep; others want to leave this world with a bang. No matter what your preference is, chances are you wouldn’t want to suffer any of these 25 unusual deaths that will leave you scratching your head.
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Will a mock-up of Tutankhamun's tomb pull in... →
Egypt’s Valley of the Kings is a popular tourist attraction, but years of visitors trekking around the old tombs of the pharaohs is causing these historic sites to deteriorate.
An exact replica of Tutankhamun’s tomb has now been created - but will tourists really want to travel to Egypt just to visit a mock-up? Rajan Datar reports.
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Toothy Tumor Found in 1,600-Year-Old Roman Corpse →
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In a necropolis in Spain, archaeologists have found the remains of a Roman woman who died in her 30s with a calcified tumor in her pelvis, a bone and four deformed teeth embedded within it.
Two of the teeth are still attached to the wall of the tumor researchers say.
The woman, who died some…
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Roman man's face finally revealed at Caerleon... →
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The face of a wealthy Roman citizen who lived in south Wales has been revealed nearly two millennia after he died.
Using the latest technology, experts have produced a portrait of the man whose skeleton was uncovered 18 years ago in Caerleon, near Newport.
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Anatomy by Charles Clark
Final project for Motion Graphics class - Fall 2010
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Channel 5: Bizarre Burials →
From themed funerals to death masks and ashes tattooed onto loved ones, discover the variety of strange and sensational ways to make your mark when you die.
Nottingham-based bespoke-coffin specialists Crazy Coffins will take on any request from skips to Rolls Royces, no matter how strange. One client, 78-year-old Malcolm, has commissioned a bright-orange aeroplane coffin as a homage to his...
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