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It's in the name, ffs. Bones and skulls from dissolved graves visible in neighborhood cemetery. Thats an ossuary - a container or building where the bones of the dead are laid to rest. First, a body is put somewhere for a few years/decades for the soft tissue to decompose leaving only the bones. Then the bones are taken out and put into the ...
Hace 3 días · As Day of the Dead is just two days long, November 1-2, many stick around Oaxaca City for a few extra days, or head to the beautiful beaches of Oaxaca to lengthen the trip — so we’ll cover that as well.. Besides all that, you’ll learn about the history of Day of the Dead, the symbolism of things like ofrendas (altars), sugar skulls and La Catrina herself, which Oaxaca cemeteries to visit ...
Hace 2 días · The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is considered to be the holiest site for Christians in the world and has been the most important pilgrimage site for Christians since the fourth century.. According to traditions dating back to the fourth century, it contains both ...
Hace 4 días · Indigenous American visual arts include portable arts, such as painting, basketry, textiles, or photography, as well as monumental works, such as architecture, land art, public sculpture, or murals. Some Indigenous art forms coincide with Western art forms; however, some, such as porcupine quillwork or birchbark biting are unique to the Americas.
Hace 2 días · Hagia Sophia (lit. 'Holy Wisdom'; Turkish: Ayasofya; Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sofía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi), is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by ...
Hace 5 días · Sistine Chapel, papal chapel in the Vatican Palace that was erected in 1473–81 by the architect Giovanni dei Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV. It is famous for its Renaissance frescoes, the most important of which are the frescoes by Michelangelo on the ceiling and on the west wall behind the altar.
Hace 2 días · Fiddler sculpture - Part of an illuminated bronze sculpture in a multinational promenade at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, England. Commissioned on behalf of the State of Israel by the Jordan P. and Irene Callig Snyder Foundation. It depicts the traditional Jewish fiddler of legend and folklore.
