#human remains

[namarikonda]

As a martyr submits to death, the masses ravage their body. What part of this divine flesh will be ripped to shreds, to be revered until the end of time? 🫀📿

[charnel-grounds]

“Reclining skeleton with crown and scepter”

— Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, c. 1930s

[ochipi]

When handling archaeological human remains gets weird

We’re all professionals, but sometimes you catch yourself realizing how weird things are looking when handling human remains

Trying to shake out clumped together dirt from someone skull

Brushing someone’s teeth with an actual toothbrush, something they have never done in their lives

Comparing someone’s bones to yours

Judging their dental hygiene

When the earworm of the day is Johnny Cash’ s “Ain’t No Grave”.

Scooping someone’s eye sockets clean with a spoon (or just their whole brain)

When some bones are just … off … you judge hard

Talking in your head to them as if they can hear you

[centuriespast]

One of several severed heads with nails through them found at Ullastret, a settlement site in northern Spain dating from the Iron Age.

Credit…Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

[wandering-cemeteries]

Kostnice u sv. Jakuba (Ossuary at the Church of St. James)

Brno, Czechia

Feb. 2023

[blondebrainpowered]

The body of Martin Luther King Jr. in the funeral home in Memphis, 1968. 

Photographer: Burk Uzzle

[hiddenstashart]

Frog and Toad Find Human Remains

[fly-the-pattern]