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Towers Of Silence: Why Humans Have Fed The Dead To Vultures For Over 3,000 Years
Like Sky Burials, Towers Of Silence avoided the negative ... have you heard about human composting?
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From diamonds to rockets, mourning the dead has gotten high-tech
In 19th-century Europe and America, “death photography” produced portraits of the departed in lifelike poses; in the Tibetan Buddhist rite known as sky burial or bya gtor (alms for the birds ...
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Burial bonds: 110,000-year-old human-Neanderthal grave shows shared rituals
The human burials unearthed were the first from the mid-middle Paleolithic period that archaeologists found in over fifty years, emphasizing a crucial moment in our development as a human society.