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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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Articles about Cremation
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Leverage energy from corpses to relax
You may feel horrified when swimming in a pool where water is heated by burning corpses. But that is the idea of scientists.
1001 mystery
Resentment - An unexplored mystery
They are crystal beads with enough colors, glitter like pearls, solid like diamonds, hammering and not breaking, burning fire does not burn. They were found in the ashes…
1001 mystery
Mysterious human coffin on the cliff edge in Peru
In Karajia, near the city of Chachapoyas, there are impressive graves.
Archeology
The funeral rite of cremation was almost 10,000 years ago
The study, conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Sao Paulo, shows that these complex funeral rituals were performed f…
Archeology
Mixtecs used cremation longer than we thought
An ancient Mexican cemetery contains evidence that the Mixtec Indians performed many funeral rituals, including the burial process about 3,000 years ago.
Environment
Buried green with alkaline hydrolysis
The classification of clean green burial options is becoming more realistic for environmental awareness.
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Discover the process of cremation of the dead
Currently, cremation has become a popular method of burial of dead people in many countries around the world because of the great benefits that this burial method brings…
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Holy land on the Ganges River and cremation origin in India
The city of Manikarnika in Varanasi, India, is famous not only for its ancient architecture but also for the cremation rite.
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This may be a new method of burial in the future
Normally, when a person dies, one is traditional burial (burial), and the other is to be cremated (cremated).
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Make recordings from the dead ashes
With the service of using cremation ashes to record a disc, relatives can hear what you want to say after you die. And Vinyly (UK) is launching a very poisonous service:…