The History of Human Body Parts

The oldest surviving example of taxidermy is a crocodile that's on dis lay in a cathedral in pontanosa, italy. In the christian world, that began nearly two thousand years ago with a movement that some scholars call the cult of the saints. There are many images of hindoo deities wearing human skulls as jewelry or drinking from like cups. The truly dark stories are about something else, human bodies.

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