Painting the Face of a Dead Emperor When Tsar Paul I was murdered in 1801, Marie Antoinette’s hairdresser stepped in to make sure the Emperor looked his post-mortem best.
A Man of Vision: the Glass Coffin Inventor A visionary inventor tries to sell an investor on glass coffins–the newest wrinkle in mortuary management–which include a filing system and a guarantee of permanent preservation of the corpse.
In an obscure museum in Florence, Italy, there is an object–a table top–which looks like it is inlaid with polished semi-precious stones. In fact, it is made of pieces of petrified human corpses.
Tales of Heads: Famous and Infamous An article about a gruesome experiment with the consciousness of severed heads reminded me of my file of mummified head stories. Here is a cabinet of mummified curiosities–merely because I am interested in the grim and gruesome. An upcoming post will share stories of hauntings involving disembodied heads.
