Thursday, June 30, 2011

MUMMY STASH FOUND IN ITALIAN CHURCH: PHOTOS

From Discovery News:
http://news.discovery.com/history/mummy-discovery-italian-church-110628.html

A remarkable mass burial of 281 bodies from the late Middle Ages, as well as a few mummified mice and a letter to God, no kidding.

MUMMY STASH FOUND IN ITALIAN CHURCH: PHOTOS
by Rossella Lorenzi

June 28, 2011 -- Hundreds of bodies stacked one of top of the other emerged during restoration work in the church of Roccapelago, a remote mountain village in north-central Italy.

About one-third of the mass grave, consisting of 281 bodies of adults, infants and children, turned out to be mummies...

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