Tombs

Cameras

Old Mayan Tomb Finally Photographed With Mini-Camera

2:20AM July 14, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Hidden for 1500 years, this funeral tomb in Palenque, Mexico, was finally glimpsed by human eyes when researchers lowered a mini camera (measuring 4cm x 6cm) through a crack in the ceiling. More »


Science

Space Archeologists Discover A Thousand Egyptian Tombs In Tanis

11:22PM May 25, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Dr Sarah Parcak thinks that “excavating a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist” but that Indiana Jones is “old school”. Well, she must know. After all, she has discovered two pyramids and 1000 tombs. From space. More »


Geek Out

Man Builds a Tomb with TV, Food, Fresh Air Just in Case He’s Buried Alive

12:15AM November 4, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

A crazy Brazilian man named Freud is so afraid of being buried alive that he’s built himself a tomb nice enough to live in, complete with TV and food. You know, just in case. It also has built-in megaphones that would allow for him to call for help just in case his body raised from the dead in some sort of zombification ritual and he wanted to lure in some easy victims.

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