Santa Maria della Concezione church in Rome
Eternal City house, Rome
Pharaoh Ti's statue to guard his sepulcher in Saqqara, Egypt
Phoenician tophets in the colony of Carthage, Tunisia
Skulls and bones of 4,000 Capuchin monks in Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome
Tomb of Ramses II, Egypt
Capuchin catacombs in Palermo, Sicily
Mummified monks at the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Sicily
Skeleton in a tomb complex in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, possibly one of the many sons of Pharaoh Ramses IIe
Feast your morbidly curious eyes on this season-appropriate gallery by National Geographic. From the bones of 4,000 Capuchin monks who have been used in a strange art to decorate rooms, to Pharaoh Ti erecting a statue of himself to guard his own tomb from looters, this gallery creepily demonstrates humankind’s fascination with death.