EditorialFuneral rites of natives along the Orinoco river (Venezuela and Colombia). The tribe lived in treehouses. The corpses of chiefs were buried until the flesh decomposed, then the skeletons were cleaned, decorated with feathers and hung in the houses. Han...
Editorialtotal corrosion-decomposed specimen, coin, ash, 1st-2nd century, metal, copper, Diam. 26 mm, wt. 6.25 gr, Roman I-II AD, the Netherlands, South Holland, Katwijk, Valkenburg.
EditorialFlat iron rivet with a small iron plate attached to the end of the peg. Originally the rivet and plate seem to have held a sheet of organic material that has decomposed, rivet, metal, iron, diam: 19 mm, vmeb 550-700, Netherlands, North Brabant, Bergeij...
EditorialPlaster cast of one of the victims of the catastrophe of 79 CE, the eruption of Vesuvius, which covered Pompeii and Herculaneum with a thick layer of volcanic stone and ashes. Bodies of the victims decomposed, but the hard crust formed by the ashes rem...
EditorialFuneral rites of natives along the Orinoco river (Venezuela and Colombia). The tribe lived in treehouses. The corpses of chiefs were buried until the flesh decomposed, then the skeletons were cleaned, decorated with feathers and hung in the houses. Han...
EditorialFuneral rites of natives along the Orinoco river (Venezuela and Colombia). The tribe lived in treehouses. The corpses of chiefs were buried until the flesh decomposed, then the skeletons were cleaned, decorated with feathers and hung in the houses. Han...
EditorialPlaster cast of one of the victims of the catastrophe of 79 CE, the eruption of Vesuvius, which covered Pompeii and Herculaneum with a thick layer of volcanic stone and ashes. Bodies of the victims decomposed, but the hard crust formed by the ashes rem...
EditorialLimestone ossuary, Roman-Jewish, 1st BCE-1st CE. The bones were collected after burial in the soil, when the flesh had decomposed. The chests were then placed in a burial chamber. Greek inscription says this chest contains the bones of the family of &q...