Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Eight thousand corpses in varied states of decay inhabit the musty, ill-lit ...

Researchers are making efforts to unravel the mystery behind the lives and deaths of the mummified children in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo in northern Sicily. Staffordshire University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Very little is known about more than 160 children interred in Sicily's world-famous Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, and why their ...

Today, in places you may not have known but now feel the need to visit at least once in your life, we’re going to take a look at the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo. As its name suggests, this site is ...

The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo serve as both a macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary record of history. Today the catacombs are lined with around 8,000 mummies, often hung like ...

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The tragic story behind the world's 'most beautiful mummy' and the mystery of her 'blinking eyes' More than 100 years after her death, Rosalia Lombardo continues to captivate the world. Preserved ...

Sicily is renowned for its stunning beaches, charming villages and towns, as well as an abundance of ancient ruins and archeological sites. The Mediterranean island attracted over 16 million visitors ...

A team of scientists is trying to find out why dozens of children were mummified and buried in catacombs at a convent on the Italian island of Sicily. The first comprehensive study of the child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo display approximately 1,284 bodies — 163 of which are children. Researchers at Staffordshire ...