Le Courrier français was a French illustrated weekly founded and edited by Jules Roques. It appeared from 1884 to 1914
Tag: Skeletons
Lustige Blätter, 1901
Lustige Blätter (Funny Leaves) was a German satire magazine that was published between 1886 and 1944
But You Must Join Us, 1903
The Sociable Ghost, the adventures of a reporter who was invited by the sociable ghost to a grand banquet, ball, and convention under the ground of Old Trinity churchyard. A true tale of the things he saw and did not see while he was not there.
Grant’s Talking Skull, 1937
From Abbott’s Magic, 1937
The Train, 1911
Paul Wilhelm Bürck (1878-1947), ‘The Train’, “The Studio”, Vol. 53, #219, June 1911
Here there be Giants!
The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave, Nevada
Giant mummy found in Lovelock cave (below). The Paiute tribe found in the Nevada region have an ancient legend of the Si-Te-Cah (or Tule-eaters), a race of red-haired cannibalistic giants. In 1886, a mining engineer named John T. Reid heard the tale and begane to investigate, however news traveled quickly that the cave was also full of bat guano, a key component for gunpowder and ladies cosmetics.
Aztec’s tower of human skulls
A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.
Skulls are seen at a site where more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments were found in the cylindrical edifice near Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City, Mexico June 30, 2017. REUTERS/Henry Romero