Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2011

10 grave strange & unique in the world


Cemetery Newgrage

cemetery Newgrage
The cemetery is located in the state of Ireland is one of the buildings or monuments of pre history of the most impressive and magnificent in the world. Built around the year 3300 up to 2900 BC, this mysterious tomb, including very large. Spacious building is round like a bunker has an area of ​​4046 square meters with a height of 12 meters.

The building is actually composed of the arrangement of the stones are very neat and there are a number of relics of carved stone megaliths. This shows that it does have a sturdy building very old age, even older than the Giza pyramids and Stonehenge.


Tana Toraja

One of the cultural heritage of Indonesia held a very well known to overseas. Tana Toraja has a funeral rite that is considered the most complicated in the world.Pemakamani ceremony is called the Solo signs. Signs Solo is a traditional funeral ceremony which obliges families of the deceased made a party as a sign of their last respects to the deceased who have gone. Which makes complicated, is that the ceremony signs Solo has a number of levels, depending on the social strata of the deceased and his family.

The most interesting is when the last stage of Solo Signs ceremony where the bodies were taken to a special bank for the funeral. Usually the body is accompanied by self-late sculpture symbolizes drawing called by the name of Tau-tau. What is surprising is the body that are stored on the cliff just put it and miraculously never smelled the stench emanating.



Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey is a very famous gothic church in London. By building the church was not seheboh and as grand as the ancient buildings of the other. But what makes a building that was built by Benedictine priest in the 10th century is who is buried there. Westminster Abbey is the burial place of English kings and other nobles.

In its development, the tomb became the last place for the people of England such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Ernest Rutherford.

Giza Necropolis

Nothing can equal the cemetery of the most magnificent, large, spacious, even the most mysterious in the world besides the Giza Necropolis. Burial complex is composed of the king of Egypt Pyramids of Giza, Pyramid of Khafre, Pyramid of Menkaure, the Sphinx Statue, as well as some other small pyramids that surround it.

One of the wonders of this unique triangle-shaped cemetery was once measured correctly by a number of experts, the pyramid has a margin of error was only by 58 millimeters!

Valley of the Kings

Valley of the Kings in Egypt became very famous when in 1922, an expert on Egyptian culture Howard Carter discovered and opened the tomb of Tutankhamen.This is where the rampant 'curse' for those who opened the tomb. Then one by one of the discoverers of the ancient tomb to die with different effect.

From a 'curse' that's the Valley of the Kings became very popular as are the findings obtained there is extraordinary, such as the gold mask of King Tut.

Catacombs of Paris

Rather difficult to describe what is the meaning of the Catacomb, but could be interpreted as an underground passageways, sometimes have rooms depending on what the room needs to be made. Catacomb of the most famous is located in the city of Paris, France.

In the 1700s, the city of Paris suffered from a kind of diseases caused by lack of proper mass graves in the cemetery. City authorities finally decided to move all the bones into a number of alleys in the city of Paris unused.

So, be the bones of the skull and placed in there and arranged in such a way in the hallways. The remarkable thing is that unused underground passageway to draw up the bones of it is to reach a length of 300 km! To maintain the authenticity of a room full of bones, the city government opened slightly to allow access only to the Catacomb of Paris.

Terracotta Army

Perhaps the findings of the existence of this statue of Chinese soldiers is still unfinished excavation. It's stunning terracotta army was buried and forgotten by history, and only rediscovered in 1974. The inventor is Yang Peiyan and some farmers who were working on the land.

These findings are torn open the veil of mystery where the tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuang, which is China's first emperor to unite China plains. Chinese Terracotta Army troop strength 8000, and the most unique, each sculpture is unique and made one by one so that no statue faces the same image. The troops were made to protect the emperor in the afterlife.

Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo

In the area of ​​Palermo, Italy, there is a monastery which is quite strange to his funeral. The priests built an underground room that cater to the funeral, and burial is not unique bury the corpse into the ground, but by doing the embalming process as the mummy mummy who then dressed with clothes and hung on the walls of the monastery! Uniquely, the mummy can change clothes like human beings who are still alive, and even follow the trend too!

Such funeral took place from the 16th century until the 19th century. And are eligible for burial in a way that is just the people who are considered prominent.Finally in the 1800's in which dead-last in the mummy, mummy 8000 who already inhabit in the abbey.

Taj Mahal

Here it is the symbol of a great love. Aside from being a symbol of eternal love, the Taj Mahal also be regarded as the most beautiful tomb ever built because in it dwells the tomb of Emperor Shah Jahan and empress that he loved so much, Mumtaz Mahal.



This building is a symbol of the greatness that is very famous Mughal dynasty in India. During the imperial Mughal dynasty, India reached its golden ages, and the Taj Mahal is one proof of his greatness. In addition to proving the Mughal dynasty of wealth (the use of Marbel stone and everything is very detailed perniknya shows the magnitude of the wealth of the dynasty), also the beauty of its architecture is very charming and very symmetrical.

Dead city in North Ossetia, Russia

From a distance, the valley is filled by a number of buildings and structures similar to the stone house, not far different from the villages in general in Russia. However, when observed more closely, there are awkward with these buildings. If we peep into, then we realize that building it is the human body that termumifikasi with a complete outfit.


According to the news, on the 18th century, Ossetia region is experiencing outbreaks of the deadly disease. Well, the family members affected by the outbreak was eventually quarantined by making a special building. The building was designed for a sick family member can not be everywhere, just given a small hole just to put food in your room. Of course what happens is death slowly because there is no adequate relief for the sick. 

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