# @discovery on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CyGTbXjiqeE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9141022-discovery-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/d856216772.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-10-07T13:00:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Discovery (@Discovery) — https://gondola.cc/Discovery

## Caption

This chapel in the #CzechRepublic was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its unique architecture...which includes more than 40,000 skeletons. 💀🦴

#SedlecOssuary traces its roots to the 1200s, when a handful of dirt from Jerusalem scattered in the local cemetery made it a uniquely popular burial site. In the 1600s, the crowded graveyard was exhumed to make room for new building projects; a local woodcarver was later commissioned to craft the skeletons into décor for the chapel, including a chandelier containing at least one of every bone in the human body!

#History #Architecture

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## Tags

history, czechrepublic, sedlecossuary, architecture

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