Victorian Beetle Wings. Dress, 1868 The wings would have glittered in candlelight, achieving a sought-after iridescent and jewel-like effect
It’s always a surprise what you find in museums. In the Mint Museum in Potosi, Bolivia, I found two mummified Spanish children from the 1800s. Gruesome stuff.
A soapstone vessel filled with hundreds of Late Antique gold coins was found at the site of Como, Italy’s former Cressoni Theater.
UNESCO adds 7,000-year-old Chilean MUMMIES to its World Heritage List after hailing the ‘global importance’ of the preserved remains, which are over 2,000 years older than their more famous Egyptian counterparts.
