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Denmark and Sweden heading into battle during the Kalmar War.
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Found: A 400-Year-Old Skeleton, Buried in a Swedish Basement

The remains may be from the Kalmar War between Denmark-Norway and Sweden.
Jonathan Carey January 22, 2019
Site of the Cohoes Mastodon discovery.
Cohoes, New York

Site of the Cohoes Mastodon

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.
Zurich, Switzerland

Kulturama

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.
Gastro Obscura

Mari Lwyd

In Wales, midwinter is the right time to look a gift horse in its gaping skull-mouth.
Aefre with the brooch and knife she was burried with.
Kent, England

Aefre

These 1,500-year-old remains were found in a mysterious Anglo-Saxon mass grave.
Uley Long Barrow.
Uley, England

Uley Long Barrow

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.
Looking into the barrow from the entrance.
Wiltshire, England

West Kennet Long Barrow

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.
Gastro Obscura

Feria del Alfeñique

The most beautiful, striking sugar skulls can be found at this annual fair in Toluca, Mexico.
Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur.
Midland, South Dakota

Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.
This image, now known as <em>La Calavera Catrina,</em> is one of José Guadalupe Posada's most iconic calaveras.
art

The Endlessly Adaptable Skeletons of José Guadalupe Posada

Calaveras created by the Mexican artist have been repurposed for generations, with wildly varying intent.
Cara Giaimo May 8, 2018
The now exposed horse skeleton is ready for documentation.
animals

Found: An Ancient Horse Skeleton in a Utah Backyard

The 15,000-year-old find dates back to the Late Pleistocene age.
Christina Ayele Djossa May 2, 2018
The entrance on the 2nd floor.
Tokyo, Japan

Intermediatheque

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.
Like other members of the enantiornithine family, the fossilized fledgling (reconstructed here) likely had claws on its wings.
animals

Found: A 127-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Fledgling

These tiny, prehistoric bones tell a story about flight.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 5, 2018
Jeremy Bentham's "auto-icon," which includes this wax head, is on its way to New York.
wax anatomy

How a Dead Philosopher Makes a Transatlantic Trip

Jeremy Bentham died 186 years ago. Now conservators are transporting his "auto-icon" from London to New York for the first time.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 2, 2018
Priest sitting outside the entrance to Abuna Yemata church.
East Tigray, Ethiopia

Abuna Yemata Guh

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.
The fresco is remarkably preserved.
Hrastovlje, Slovenia

Danse Macabre of Hrastovlje

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.
A detail from an oil painting, <em>Life and Death</em>, depicting half-woman, half-skeleton figure bearing a scythe, 18th century.
skulls

How Humans Have Embraced Life, With Images of Death

Masterpieces of memento mori.
Anika Burgess December 7, 2017
A 1992 blurry image of a woman.
Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain

Bélmez Faces

Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.