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The world’s oldest mummies buried more than 7,000 years ago in the arid desert of
northern Chile are being turned into black slime by climate change.

Scientists
have found that growing humidity can cause an explosion of bacteria
living on the preserved skin of the Chinchorro mummies.The bacteria then
feeds on the ancient skin, causing it to break down into a black slime. Photo credit: Vivien Standen

Igbo women and girls and their hairstyles, 1900-1930.

The crested hairstyle ojongo was popular until the mid-20th century, it is a distinctive feature of Igbo arts depicting women. Women used ornaments like thread, feathers, shells, bone, wood, beads, Igbo currency, coins, or cloth; mud containing colourful ores, yellow and red camwood powder or paste and palm oil and charcoal were also used for style. Isi/Ishi owu, a threaded hairstyle (seen here worn by Chimamanda) is still popular among married women in rural areas.

Hart Island, also known as the
Island of the Dead, is a massive burial ground for people too poor to
afford a proper funeral or bodies who were never claimed by family
members.

Located in New York, it has worked as a cemetery since 1869, after
being a Civil War prison camp, a tuberculosis hospital and an asylum for
the insane. It holds the remains of at least 1 million people. Inmates
work as gravediggers and groundkeepers in the otherwise abandoned
island.

Until last weekend, families weren’t allowed to visit the actual spot
where their loved ones were buried, they could only look at the scenery
from a gazebo. The DOC fortunately changed that, offering closure to
many.