From 1786-1787 the graves in Paris’ Cemetery of Innocents (Cimetière des Saints-Innocents) were dug up to move the bones to the abandoned mines beneath the City of Lights, what would become the famous Paris Catacombs. Fourcroy and Thouret, French scientists… Read More ›
Admiral John Paul Jones (1747-1792) was a legendary seaman and war hero who fought valiantly in the American Revolution. Jones was a Scottish sailor who commanded a ship in the Continental Navy during the Revolution and is considered a founder… Read More ›
The premiere of The Walking Dead got me thinking about a couple of ancestor rituals where the dead rise from their graves to commune with the living. During both of these ceremonies the dead are given fresh attire and paraded… Read More ›
In 1891 during an excavation in Thebes, French Egyptologist Eugène Grébaut discovered a mummy from the 21st dynasty (between 1077 BC and 943 BC). The mummified body belonged to Nespaheran, a priest of Amun, who was between 25 and 30… Read More ›
In Germany last August, a little boy playing in his grandmother’s attic found a mummy in a sarcophagus. Forensic experts at Hamburg’s Eppendorf University Hospital examined the mummy to determine its age and origin, and they’ve determined that most of the… Read More ›
Last month a boy in Kreiszeitung, Germany found a mummy in a hidden sarcophagus in his grandmother’s attic. Many thought at the time it was a hoax. These people maybe right, just not in the way they thought. The CT… Read More ›
Reading about the bog bodies recently excavated in Ireland this week brought to mind the two bog mummies unearthed off the coast of Scotland in 2001. The mummies were discovered under the remains of Bronze Age roundhouses at Cladh Hallan…. Read More ›
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