Author: Julianna Ainsleigh
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The Tongue That Would Not Rot: Saint Anthony’s Incorrupt Relic Padua, Italy — April 8, 1263 When Franciscan friars opened the creaking, ageing stone tomb of Saint Anthony of Padua, thirty-two years after his death, they expected to find decayed bones, but what they discovered would become one of medieval Christianity’s most unsettling and inspiring…
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⚠️ Adult Content Warning: This article includes ancient Roman imagery of nudity and sexual symbols. Rome certainly wasn’t built in a day, and Pompeii wasn’t just a city buried in ash. They were both a civilisation and a city obsessed with protection. The Romans lived in perpetual fear of the evil eye — a curse…
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Archaeology has been responsible for the uncovering of some amazing finds over the centuries. But while we may marvel at the spectacular, it has also been guilty of uncovering haunted artefects. Here are five such artefacts you may want to be wary of getting too close to. 1. The Unlucky Mummy – British Museum, London…
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⚠️ Content Warning: This article discusses human remains, ancient surgery, and graphic descriptions of amputation. Intended for mature readers (18+). Borneo 31,000 years ago Flames from torches create grotesque, flickering shadows on the cave walls; voices are hushed, and a child is screaming. The smell of blood and sweat permeates the air, but this is…
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With Tollund Man, his eyes are closed as if in sleep, his lips opened as if about to speak. The stubble on his chin looks fresh, like it had grown just days ago. But this man has been dead for over 2,000 years—and someone had murdered him. On May 6, 1950, two brothers were cutting…
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In the suffocating darkness of a Swedish lake, where no sunlight has touched the bottom for eight millennia, wooden stakes pierced through ancient skulls tell a story of violence so brutal it defies explanation. These mounted heads are evidence of ritual from a time long forgotten. Here, in waters dark as dried blood, an atmosphere…
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At 22,000 feet above sea level, Llullaillaco on the border of Chile and Argentina is a place of silence. The mountain claws at the sky ominously, its slopes stripped bare, its nights colder than –20°C. Nothing human should survive there. Yet buried in its frozen skin, three children from around 1500AD were found sitting as…