Crypts and graves from different parts of the world, the secrets of which are still unknown.
1. Corpses with boots. Chile
In the Chilean Atacama Desert, there is a saying “here you die, here you dry up”. The corpses left by the marauders in full view quickly dry up in the sun. In this graveyard in the city of Puelma, open coffins are everywhere, and the bodies inside are still in lace-up boots.
2. Italy. Mummies of Cappuccino
More than 400 years ago, the monks of the Capucin monastery in Palermo discovered that the priests buried in the catacombs had undergone natural mummification. Rumors of this spread quickly, and the authorities allowed ordinary citizens to be buried in the same way at the same place. Now, here you can see thousands of corpses, most of which are wearing the tattered remains of beautiful robes, now exhibited in the narrow halls of the gloomy museum.
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3. Catacombs of Capuchin. Italy
About 8,000 mummies in the Catacombs of Cappuccino in Palermo are displayed in halls, according to their earthly status: male or female; priest or worker; child or adult. There is even a virgin chamber. The Italian government banned mummification in 1881, but an exception was made in 1920 for two-year-old Rosalia Lombardo, whose perfectly preserved body is referred to here as "sleeping beauty."
4. Roman catacombs
The skulls and bones of some 4,000 Cappuccino monks, some of whom died nearly five centuries ago, adorn the six-room crypt below the Church of Santa Maria Dela Concezione in Rome. This is more than just a burial chamber. The priests have decorated the remains of their brothers in a bizarre, deathly dark manner - chandeliers, vaulted corridors and wall decorations.
5. Rome. Bones in the crypt
The neatly laid bones are located in a crypt under a church in Rome. Burial chambers under the eternal city have become home to tens of thousands of the dead. The 16th-century church of Santa Maria Dela Orazione e Mort used its catacombs to provide a dignified burial for the poor, burying a total of 8,000 bodies over a 300-year period.
6. Crypt. Rome
Respect for the dead - as well as a reminder to the living of the frailty of life. These grim ornaments are drawn from the bones of 4,000 deceased Cappuccino priests.
7. Phoenician Tophet
It is said that the Phoenicians regularly sacrificed children to appease their gods. These ritual killings and burials took place in stone sanctuaries called tofets. This tofet was discovered in the ruins of Carthage in Tunisia.
8. Tomb of Ramses II. Egypt
The walls of the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs were often covered with hieroglyphs, which gave instructions on how to get to the king, avoiding many of the dangers that might await on the road between hell and heaven. Here, a man's lantern illuminates the wall inscriptions on the way to the grave of Ramses II.
9. The statue of the pharaoh. Egypt
The Egyptian pharaohs are believed to have charged their exquisitely decorated graves with mortal curses to discourage possible marauders. Pharaoh Ti went even further. He ordered to walled up his statue in a special cell.
10. Skeleton in an Egyptian tomb
A cluster of tombs in Egypt known as KV5 was built to contain the remains of the sons of Pharaoh Ramses II. Located in the Valley of the Kings, it contains over 120 chambers and corridors, including the largest burial chamber in the valley. And this is possibly one of the sons of Ramses.
11. El Brujo. Peru
Archaeologists recently uncovered the grave of a carefully wrapped, tattooed woman atop El Brujo. The find took place in a ceremonial temple of the Mochica civilization in northwestern Peru. Some experts believe that such a burial of a 1,600-year-old mummy indicates that the woman held a special position and was most likely a warrior queen.