Monthly Archives: November 2018

NECROPOLIS, Glasgow Scotland

This Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral (St. Mungo’s Cathedral). Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. Typically for the period only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every … Continue reading

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CHURCH CEMETERIES in DENMARK

The ordinary cemetery is taken to new heights by the obsessive Danes. Small, narrow hedges separate individual plots. Gravestones can be typical headstones or more often stones with unfinished backs lying on the ground. Not uncommonly there are two and … Continue reading

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VIA APPIA CATACOMBS, Rome Italy

VIA APPIA. The first 90km section of this road was laid in 312 BC and then extended in 100 BC to reach Brindisi on Italy’s southern Adriatic coast. It has long been one of Rome’s exclusive addresses, a beautiful cobbled … Continue reading

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KHMER ROUGE KILLING FIELDS, Phnom Penh Cambodia

The Cambodian Killing Fields are several sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of … Continue reading

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CATACOMBS dei CAPPUCCINI, Palermo Sicily

History. Palermo’s Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The bodies were dehydrated on the racks of … Continue reading

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ST PETERS TOMB AND THE VATICAN NECROPOLIS, St Peters Basilica, The Vatican Rome Italy

2000-year-old tombs underneath St Peters Basilica.  St. Peter was (said to be crucified) in Rome in 64 C.E., at the orders of the Emperor Nero. (Peter asked to be crucified upside-down because he did not think he was worthy of … Continue reading

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LA RECOLETA CEMETERY, Buenos Aires Argentina

La Recoleta Cemetery is located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and a granddaughter of Napoleon. In 2011, the BBC hailed it as one of the world’s best cemeteries, and in 2013, … Continue reading

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CATACOMBS, Paris France

The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris’ ancient stone mines. Extending south from the Barrière d’Enfer (“Gate of Hell”) former city gate, … Continue reading

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MUMMIES OF GUANAJUATO

The Mummies of Guanajuato are several naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. The human bodies appear to have been disinterred between 1870 and 1958. During that time, a local tax required a fee … Continue reading

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CONVENTO dei CAPPUCCINI, Rome Italy

The Capuchins were an austere group of monks established in 1529. To ensure a proper resurrection, they saved everything including the bones of 4000 monks when they died, and until 1870, decorated four small crypt chapels to construct Rome’s strangest … Continue reading

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