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The medieval ossuary A 14th-century donor portrait in fresco of Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander in the ossuary. The only part that has survived from the monastery's original structure is the ossuary, which has a specific architectural design and ancient frescoes, and is situated 300 m away from the contemporary monastery complex.
An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary ("os" is "bone" in Latin [1]).
The ossuary is a major plot device in the John Connolly novel The Black Angel. [9] The ossuary is used as a location for the Dungeons & Dragons movie [10] and the movie Blood & Chocolate. In April 2002, German author Jason Dark featured the ossuary in issue 1240 Das Knochenkreuz of his long-running dime novel series Geisterjäger John Sinclair.
Kutná Hora (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkutnaː ˈɦora] ⓘ; German: Kuttenberg) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The centre of Kutná Hora, including the Sedlec Abbey and its ossuary, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 because of its outstanding architecture and its influence on subsequent architectural developments ...
The Hereford mappa mundi, a map of the world with Jerusalem at its centre. The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation.
[1] [2] It is the oldest sacral medieval structure and the only ossuary in Bratislava. First incarnation of this building comes from the 11th – 12th centuries, built as a chapel consecrated to Saint Lawrence atop an old cemetery located between today's Stará tržnica and Manderlák buildings, historically just outside the city walls .
The Capela dos Ossos was built by Franciscan friars. [when?] It is a church of bones. An estimated 5,000 corpses were exhumed to decorate the walls of the chapel. [1] The bones, which came from ordinary people who were buried in Évora's medieval cemeteries, were arranged by the Franciscans in a variety of patterns.
The zonal maps should be viewed as a kind of teaching aid – easily reproduced and designed to reinforce the idea of the Earth's sphericity and climate zones. T-O maps were designed to schematically illustrate the three land masses of the world as it was known to the Romans and their medieval European heirs.