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Hanging coffins in China are known in Mandarin as xuanguan ( simplified Chinese: 悬 棺; traditional Chinese: 懸 棺; pinyin: xuán guān) which also means "hanging coffin". They are an ancient funeral custom of some ethnic minorities. The most famous hanging coffins are those which were made by the Bo people (now extinct) of Sichuan and Yunnan.
Pre-publication images posted to BayImg became part of a legal battle when Conde Nast's network was later allegedly hacked. [102] [103] In July, "within hours after Ingmar Bergman 's death", BergmanBits.com was launched, listing torrents for the director's films, [100] [104] [105] online until mid-2008. [106]
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...
A sarcophagus discovered in 2009 in the burial chamber of an Egyptian high priest was originally from the tomb of pharaoh Ramesses II, according to a new study.
The 2014 discovery of a large Alexander-era tomb at Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis in the region of Macedonia, Greece, [29] once again led to speculation about Alexander's final resting place. Some have speculated that it was built for Alexander but not used due to Ptolemy I Soter having seized the funeral cortege. [30]
The Wisconsin Historic Society has now found what it believes are 11 canoes, all from what was likely an ancient lakeshore, each serving as its own discreet time capsule of sorts. The oldest of ...
All eyes were on Monday's Copa América clash between USA and Uruguay from Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium.. They did not like what they saw. From the opening moments of the game, the broadcast on ...
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search.