burial practices

The myth of elephant graveyards has pervaded popular culture, and recent observations of buried Asian elephant calves may finally give that legend some credence. In the research published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa, two scientists describe five instances where elephant calves have been...

If I saw one of these in a charity shop and didn't know what it was, I'd pay a couple of quid for it. They're instead extremely old and valuable, 200 B.C. to 300 A.D. They were funeral/grave offerings with some contemporary collectors reporting paranormal experiences through owning them. Stone...

At Chinese funerals, sometimes a pair of puppets was buried with the dead, and this story is about this. I am not sure whether you have an impression of this or not. But for readers of "Dragon Ball", it is not strange because Chiaotsu takes his shape from the male puppet. Another photo below is...

Cross and bed found in Anglo-Saxon grave shed new light on 'dark ages' Archaeologists in Cambridge thrilled to discover grave with body of young woman on a bed with an ornate gold cross Maev Kennedy The Guardian, Friday 16 March 2012 The dead are often described as sleeping, but archaeologists...

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2885663.stm

I grew up in Wells, Somerset, on the Keward Estate which looked out over rolling fields to a delightful sewage farm. Behind this stands the imposing Hay Hill (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?x=352500&y=144500&zoom=3&isp=200&ism=1000&arrow=y?151,86) We had a pet Chichuahua at...

Howdy, folk-saw a program on the television last night about one of my favorite unsolved mysteries/fortean phenomem: The Shroud of Turin. Without proclaiming on what it actually might be, the thing is freaking weird. High weirdness, for that matter. Any opinions/hypotheses/theroies? Full...