THESE ghoulish photographs show a 16th century Italian crypt that holds 8,000 corpses. The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 contains around 1,252 mummies, but is open to the public. Palermo’s Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599, the […]
THESE ghoulish photographs show a 16th century Italian crypt that holds 8,000 corpses.
The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 contains around 1,252 mummies, but is open to the public.
Palermo’s Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it.
In 1599, the monks mummified a priest called Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs.
The last burials were in the 1920s, but the catacombs are now a museum run by monks, allowing people to get face to face with the dead.
Sicily is set to launch a research laboratory on mummification, which was common in villages throughout the island.
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