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The coffin hanging on the cliff of Igorot people
The Igorot community in Sagada, Philippines 2,000 years ago performed a unique burial rite: Hanging or crucifying their loved ones along the Echo valley cliffs.
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10 scary locations in the world
The tomb of Paris is a graveyard of the city of Paris and is an old mine with a length of 1.7 km. In the late 18th century, the Innocents graveyard in the Les Halles nei…
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Why do ancient Egyptians only sex in the summer?
A new study revealed, ancient Egyptians mainly sex in the summer. Archaeologists studying at a cemetery in Egypt's Dakhleh oasis unearthed 765 ancient tombs.
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15 horrifying photos of the world's skeletons
You may be familiar with the image of skulls, human bones in horror movies and stories. But the scary images from the tombs, tombs, chapels, ... below will make you surp…
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The most bizarre burial technologies
World civilizations in the past have practiced all kinds of technologies to bury anomalous dead, from embalming under tombs, to drying corpses in the sky for animals to…
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Mystery story 'vampire' knows how to control corpses
Arnold Paole - The most notorious vampire in Europe in the 18th century. Arnold Paole revived after death, attacked and turned many people into blood-sucking vampires cr…
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Mysterious the most bizarre places in the world
People are always proud of their scientific and technical level, have discovered all the niches on the earth and began to explore the space. There are still many bow ties
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Mysterious vampire in Highgate cemetery
Highgate Cemetery is located atop a hill that is modest in London's Islington area. This is the final resting place of writer Douglas Adams, physicist Michael Faraday, a…
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'Wild beasts' throwing stones at the cemetery
For years David Arceneaux - a man living in Port Neches, Jefferson, Texas, USA - came to the Oak Bluff cemetery every month to clear the grass on the grave of a friend a…
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New explanation for the mass sacrifice of children
The site of the remains of thousands of children in Carthage (Tunisia) may not be a place of child sacrifice, but a resting place for babies and unfortunate babies who d…
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Two 'ghosts' in Australian cemetery
While visiting the graveyard of a town in Australia, a woman accidentally captures pictures of two children and thinks it is a ghost.
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Shakespeare 'Shakespeare' of German literature
The work of determining the body of Friedrich Schiller - the great German poet, tragedy and philosopher, will be arduous after the researchers found that none of the 23…
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Jurassic monster revealed
Scientists have discovered the fossil of a giant monster with a reptile fish in a Jurassic cemetery dating back 150 million years, on h & o.
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Dead land of sperm whales in the North Sea
Many consecutive landslides caused the total number of dead whales in the North Sea coast to increase to 26 in just one month.
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The mummy of a woman intact 3,000 years in the ancient tomb of Egypt
Researchers found intact mummies of a woman in an unopened casket dating back more than 3,000 years in Luxor city in southern Egypt, Guardian reported yesterday.