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A Big and Small Discovery
From 1997 to 2001, Archeologists discovered a series of three unlooted tombs in a 1,500-year-old Moche pyramid in Peru. The Moche were a cultural group that occupied northern Peru from 100-750 AD. They were a fearsome people who participated in human sacrifice.The tombs held five skeletons surrounded by textiles, ceramics, llama skeletons, and decorative metal works. These skeletons[...]
Sunken Cemetery of Camiguin
On February 16, 1871 earthquakes began to be felt by residents of Bonbon on the island of Camiguin which lies in the Bohol Sea in the Philippines. Camiguin has always been known as the island "Born of Fire" as there are seven volcanoes located on it. By April of that year a volcanic fissure opened up and began pouring lava onto surrounding areas and into the sea. When the eruptions[...]
The World's Extinct Animals Cemetery
In 1998, an animal protector named Guo Geng went to work at The Nanhaizi David's Deer Park in Beijing. While working as an animal expert and volunteer at the park, he came up with the idea to build a cemetery for extinct animals within the park.As a child, Geng took great interest in nursing injured or sick animals back to health and making small cemeteries for them if they died. He had[...]
Angel of Grief
William Wetmore Story graduated from Harvard Law School in 1840 intending to follow in his father's footsteps but his heart wasn't in his profession.He decided to leave his successful career in law and take up sculpturing. When his father Joseph, who was a Supreme Court justice, died he was commissioned to create a statue in his honor and he decided to travel to Rome, Italy to study the[...]
The Oregon Trail - America's Longest Graveyard
"Here lies an early traveler who lost his life in quest of riches in the west." There's no name or date on this grave marker to identify this traveler but he was on his way west via the Oregon Trail.Between 1841 and 1869 more than 200,000 people packed all of their worldly belongings and their[...]
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