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This 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals How Ancient Romans Celebrated Life and Death

Let this serve as inspiration to you this Halloween.

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With Halloween approaching, we wanted to share a bit of cute, spooky content with you. Many of us already know that a memento mori (which translates to “remember that you must die”) is an object meant to remind us of our mortality, whether to encourage us to enjoy life while it lasts or to be righteous because we could meet our Maker at any moment.

The Science Museum Group Collection just took it upon itself to draw our attention to one of its rare miniature treasures on Instagram. They shared a clip (from a longer 2024 video........

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