The ancient funeral tradition of “hanging coffins” in southern China was carried out by ancestors of a minority ethnic group still living in the region today, a new study has found. The report ...
High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...
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Ancient 'hanging coffin' people in China finally identified — and their descendants still live there today
For millennia, an ethnic group in what's now southwest China placed their dead in "hanging coffins" on cliffsides, but their identity has long eluded researchers. Now, a new genetic study reveals that ...
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In Ghana, the dead are buried in beer bottles, shoes, and airplanes: Inside the tradition of fantasy coffins
They look like props from a dream: a gleaming red Coca-Cola bottle, a golden fish, a sleek Ghana Airways aeroplane, a lobster halfway through being painted. Yet these are no mere sculptures, they are ...
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