mummies
La Pascualita: An Extremely Well-Preserved Corpse, or an Eerily Life-like Mannequin?
In late 1920s Mexico, a couple gifted their daughter with what seemed like an ordinary doll at the time. Like every other child, she too outgrew her dolls and abandoned them. However, a decade later ...
Dipanjana Mukherjee
Aug 22
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Rosalia Lombardo: The 8,000 Skeletons, 1,252 Mummies and a Fallen Angel Who Rest Within the Catacombs of Capuchin
On the historical island of Sicily sits the Sicilian capital of Palermo, resting on the toe of Italy’s boot-based geographical shape. It is a location rich in history – between Europe and Africa – on ...
Gavin Alexander
Jul 09
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Church of the Dead: Home to the Peculiar Mummies of Provincial Italy
Urbania, a lively little Italian town, houses one of the most fascinating churches in the world- the Chiesa dei Morti, or Church of the Dead. It looks to be a small nondescript medieval structure from ...
Dipanjana Mukherjee
Jun 16
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