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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1920, a young girl named Rosalia Lombardo died of pneumonia caused by the Spanish Flu, just one week before her second birthday. Now, she lies in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, encased ...

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 in Sicily, Italy, are famous for their nearly 1,300 mummified corpses on display to the public. Now researchers plan to conduct the first-ever study devoted to a subset of those ...

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 ...

The first ever comprehensive study of mummified children in Sicily’s famous Capuchin Catacombs is being led by Staffordshire University. Dr Kirsty Squires, Associate Professor of Bioarchaeology, and ...

The stone stairway that leads down into the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, might at first offer relief from the Mediterranean heat—until you see the corpses, all 1800 of them, lining the ...

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 ...

These catacombs are the last dwelling place of almost 2,000 of the faithful departedThe Catacombs of the Capuchins of Palermo are the last dwelling place of approximately 1,800 faithful. Some better ...