Category: Grizzly Bits
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From leech collectors to plague buriers, these ancient jobs were filthy, fatal, and soaked in misery. History’s payroll of horror. Think your job is bad? Spare a thought for the poor souls of the past — those who waded through blood, dung, and death just to earn their bread, yet never gave up. 1. Leech…
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She was the last face the living saw. The Angel of Death wasn’t a priestess or a murderer; she was the technician of death. Among the Rus’ people, Viking traders who settled along the great rivers of Eastern Europe in the tenth century, this woman was known simply as the Angel of Death. But who…
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Britain’s Blue-Eyed Ghost When scientists unveiled the face in 2018, the room went quiet. Dark skin. Bright blue eyes. It was a combination that startled researchers, not because it cannot occur today, but because of this particular ancient genetic signature. A dark-skinned hunter-gatherer gene paired with the early European light-eye mutation has long since been…
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The Romans are well known for their elaborate feasts and decadence, but how much do you know about what they ate? While some items may be familiar, there are other things the Romans actually ate that are, shall we say, a bit different to what we expect.
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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…