Are museum visitors who view ancient Egyptian funerary items complicit in grave desecration, grave robbery, body snatching, vandalism, abuse of corpses, and disrespecting the dead?
#ancientegypt #egyptianmummies #museums #archeology #egyptology #egypt #graves #tombs #gravedesecration #graverobbery #bodysnatching #abuseofcorpse #vandalism #gravelooting #crimes #theft #humanremains #disinternment

Ballast Hills Burial Ground in Newcastle upon Tyne, England

This former burial ground, built atop discarded ballast from cargo ships, is now a public park.#bodysnatching #parks #cemeteries #burialplaces #maritimehistory #section-Atlas
Ballast Hills Burial Ground

Ballast Hills Burial Ground

This former burial ground, built atop discarded ballast from cargo ships, is now a public park.

Atlas Obscura

#DontLookNow; but...

#RedBeanBear has been #BodySnatching with the late (and #VeryGreat) #DonaldSutherland (RIP)...

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Gravewatcher's Huts in Warblington, England

These unassuming buildings in the tranquil churchyard of rural Warblington are in fact grave watchers’ huts.#cemeteries #bodysnatching #burialplaces #graveyards #medicine #section-Atlas
Gravewatcher's Huts

Gravewatcher's Huts

These unassuming buildings in the tranquil churchyard of rural Warblington are in fact grave watchers’ huts.

Atlas Obscura

Cholera Monument in Eyemouth, Scotland

A watchhouse that is made a tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for victims succumbing to a deadly disease.#bodysnatching #medicine #disasters #monuments #disease #section-Atlas
Cholera Monument

Cholera Monument

A watchhouse that is made a tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

Atlas Obscura

@saskia

I want to read this!

I once did a blog post on early nineteenth century bodysnatching, if you might it useful: http://romancingthepast.blogspot.com/2012/10/invasion-of-body-snatchers.html

#History #Romance #Bodysnatching #Resurrectionist #RobertKnox

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

It’s October, and that means Halloween and things that go bump in the night—or, sometimes, bang in the night. Did you know that until 1827,...