They Ground Up Mummies And Called It Medicine
Honey, for centuries Europeans bought powdered Egyptian mummies from apothecaries and swore they cured everything from headaches to bad manners.Read More 
They Polish Their Dead Like Sofa Cushions
In Sulawesi the Toraja periodically exhume relatives, clean and redress the corpses in a ritual called Ma'nene that treats death like a very slow home visit.Read More 
Lake Natron Turns Birds Into Stone And Nature Cheers
There is a lake in Tanzania that bakes and salts unlucky animals into eerie statues while flamingos act like it's a spa day.Read More 
They Stole A Giant's Bones And Put Them On Display
He begged for a burial at sea and was instead bribed, dissected, and turned into a museum oddity - the ultimate indignity.Read More 