EXHUMATED REMAINS OF KINGS AND QUEENS

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[dcmuggamuga]

It's just so strange and phenomenal that the skeletons you see there were once living breathing human beings like us and in their age it was so ancient but in this age, you can visit it and take a photo of it in HD quality.

[mightyhans]

"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper"
-Robert Alton Harris

[equeschristi]

"For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return."

[ShintyShinto]

and now here i am, a peasant, staring at their skeletal remains on my computer screen while eating a chicken curry

[alialmaazmi]

This shows no matter who you are, no matter what you have you’d still end up alone without any of what you had when you were alive. Furthermore, leave prints so the people can mention you in a good way even when your dead, thus always be humble.

[jeffzamos]

"What I am, you will be too. What you are, I've already been"

Written on the skull of an Orthodox monk.

[penguincommunity]

What’s creepy is that when you look at the skulls, you can see that they do resemble the living people they once housed.

[ernestthecatmiller]

Always had a deep fascination w exhumed bodies, human decomposition and the macabre in general. Thank you 💜

[joechilds]

Nice video. My only complaint about it was the color of the wording needed to be darker. Found it a bit hard to read.

[TheConorsmithusa]

How many skulls did alfred the great have?!

[jovanmalic]

At least their names are written in history. Some people even became the main heroes of their nations and they still live in the hearts of millions. When we die, only our children and maybe grandchildren will remember us. After their death, we will die forever. We will die for the second time, in peoples memories. My grandmother died 16 years ago. I'm kinda even more sad because I forgot her voice. She was my guardian angel, saving me from my abusive father.

[mikeycraig]

The first segment, Ælfred the Great. There are about four kings in that one tomb. They were buried in Winchester cathedral, but during the English civil war the protestants/parliamentarians smashed up the reliquaries those Kings had separately (they saw them as Catholic Kings so they were an enemy, even though they'd been dead for 800+ years), fast forward a few hundred years and a tomb with multiple bones was found, it's theorised that these are the bones from those reliquaries. If they are then it's Ælfred, Ædgar (Ælfreds grandfather) and maybe Æthelstan (Ælfreds grandson) too.

[drwgalabuschagne]

Who's having a some type of weird existential crisis as they watch this?

[petrikokko]

I especially liked Alfred the Great and his five skulls.

[galaxy_caveman]

This is actually super cool. Being able to see their "picture" next to their exhumed bodies and seeing the face/skull match up is cool

[johngreen]

One of the interesting exhumation was I. Paderewski. He died in NY in 1941, so you could not send him back to Poland because of WW2. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. When the communists were turned away in Poland in 1992, the US had his remains exhumed and sent back to Warsaw for burial there.

[christiankrueger]

It’s really cool to compare the skeletons with the paintings to see how there head shape in the painting matches with their skeleton. It’s just too bad that everyone seems to be having an existential crisis from it.

[noblechief]

These people lived long/short, difficult, and eventful lives. We can only sum them up in terms of there great achievements, their birth and their death. Not what they looked like, what they would have sounded like, what they ate, what they laughed about, sang about, talked about. All of those things that were not recorded. It is truly amazing.

[olficie]

I think it's so ethereal and unsettling to see the remains of someone, knowing what this person did and that this body once ruled over places, walked the earth like us. Time is an artist, a destructive but wonderful artist.