burial rituals
Photographs of the Weird and Beautiful Ways the Dead Are Memorialised Around the World
We talked to Paul Koudounaris about decorating skulls, burying bodies, and "Memento Mori," his latest book.
How Bodies Were Buried During History's Worst Epidemics
From the black death to the Spanish flu epidemic to last year's Ebola outbreak, what did people do with all those diseased corpses?
Looking at the Ancient Catholic Practice of Turning Human Bones into Art and Furniture
Everyone dies, but not everyone gets to be turned into a light fixture.
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