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Bones Of 37 People Found In A Giant Stone Jar Points To A Mysterious Burial Ritual In The JungleSite 75, a giant jar filled with dozens of human remains, viewed from above during excavations.

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Bones Of 37 People Found In A Giant Stone Jar Points To A Mysterious Burial Ritual In The JungleSite 75, a giant jar filled with dozens of human remains, viewed from above during excavations.
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Bones Of 37 People Found In A Giant Stone Jar Points To A Mysterious Burial Ritual In The Jungle

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Says He Wants To Be Buried, Not Cremated – And The Science Of Why Is Compellinga flower and mushrooms growing around a skull

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Says He Wants To Be Buried, Not Cremated – And The Science Of Why Is Compellinga flower and mushrooms growing around a skull
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Says He Wants To Be Buried, Not Cremated – And The Science Of Why Is Compelling

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Dissolving The Dead: Scotland Becomes First UK Country To Allow Aquamation, A Green Alternative To Cremationwhite powder disappearing into water

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Dissolving The Dead: Scotland Becomes First UK Country To Allow Aquamation, A Green Alternative To Cremationwhite powder disappearing into water
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Dissolving The Dead: Scotland Becomes First UK Country To Allow Aquamation, A Green Alternative To Cremation

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Did Neanderthals Have Religion?Cave dwellers gathered around a campfire

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Did Neanderthals Have Religion?Cave dwellers gathered around a campfire
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Did Neanderthals Have Religion?

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9,500-Year-Old Headless Skeleton Is New World’s Oldest Known Cremated AdultWorld's oldest cremation pyre

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9,500-Year-Old Headless Skeleton Is New World’s Oldest Known Cremated AdultWorld's oldest cremation pyre
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9,500-Year-Old Headless Skeleton Is New World’s Oldest Known Cremated Adult

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7,000-Year-Old Atacama Mummies May Have Been Created As "Art Therapy"Chinchorro mummy

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7,000-Year-Old Atacama Mummies May Have Been Created As "Art Therapy"Chinchorro mummy
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7,000-Year-Old Atacama Mummies May Have Been Created As "Art Therapy"

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Burial, Cremation, Embalming: Is The Way We Do Death Harming Earth’s Ecosystems?dead mans fingers growing out of the ground

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Burial, Cremation, Embalming: Is The Way We Do Death Harming Earth’s Ecosystems?dead mans fingers growing out of the ground
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Burial, Cremation, Embalming: Is The Way We Do Death Harming Earth’s Ecosystems?

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The World’s Oldest Known Cake Is Over 4,000 Years Old, And It Sounds Pretty DeliciousA traditional Egyptian basbousa cake, round with almonds on top

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The World’s Oldest Known Cake Is Over 4,000 Years Old, And It Sounds Pretty DeliciousA traditional Egyptian basbousa cake, round with almonds on top
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The World’s Oldest Known Cake Is Over 4,000 Years Old, And It Sounds Pretty Delicious

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"The Body Is Slowly And Continuously Heated": 14,000-Year-Old Smoked Mummies Are World’s OldestPrehistoric mummy from China

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"The Body Is Slowly And Continuously Heated": 14,000-Year-Old Smoked Mummies Are World’s OldestPrehistoric mummy from China
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"The Body Is Slowly And Continuously Heated": 14,000-Year-Old Smoked Mummies Are World’s Oldest

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Neanderthals In Iberia Had Funerary Practices – They're Just Not What We ExpectedA photo showing the skeletal remains of a neanderthal laying disassembled in soil in a cave. The skill is visible surrounded by its arms, spin and parts of its ribs.

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Neanderthals In Iberia Had Funerary Practices – They're Just Not What We ExpectedA photo showing the skeletal remains of a neanderthal laying disassembled in soil in a cave. The skill is visible surrounded by its arms, spin and parts of its ribs.
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Neanderthals In Iberia Had Funerary Practices – They're Just Not What We Expected

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Exceptionally Well-Preserved Austrian Mummy Was Embalmed With Previously Unknown MethodA photo of the mummified remains resting a in wooden box with a glass cover. The photo shows the upper body of the mummy with its head on display. The face has decayed down to the skull, demonstrating a rictus smile and empty eye sockets. The skin is light brown and leathery and the corpse is holding a small cross.

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Exceptionally Well-Preserved Austrian Mummy Was Embalmed With Previously Unknown MethodA photo of the mummified remains resting a in wooden box with a glass cover. The photo shows the upper body of the mummy with its head on display. The face has decayed down to the skull, demonstrating a rictus smile and empty eye sockets. The skin is light brown and leathery and the corpse is holding a small cross.
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Exceptionally Well-Preserved Austrian Mummy Was Embalmed With Previously Unknown Method

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The Exploding Pope: What Happens When Embalming Goes Wrong?statue of pope pius XII

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The Exploding Pope: What Happens When Embalming Goes Wrong?statue of pope pius XII
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The Exploding Pope: What Happens When Embalming Goes Wrong?

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Towers Of Silence: Why Humans Have Fed The Dead To Vultures For Over 3,000 Yearsa round tower in a desert where bodies are left to be fed on by vultures

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Towers Of Silence: Why Humans Have Fed The Dead To Vultures For Over 3,000 Yearsa round tower in a desert where bodies are left to be fed on by vultures
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Towers Of Silence: Why Humans Have Fed The Dead To Vultures For Over 3,000 Years

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Graveyard Vs Cemetery: Is There A Difference?tombstones packed close together in a graveyard

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Graveyard Vs Cemetery: Is There A Difference?tombstones packed close together in a graveyard
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Graveyard Vs Cemetery: Is There A Difference?

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Why Do We Bury People In Coffins And Not Just In The Ground?a coffin in a graveyard

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Why Do We Bury People In Coffins And Not Just In The Ground?a coffin in a graveyard
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Why Do We Bury People In Coffins And Not Just In The Ground?

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