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Lasting art can be mysterious and often misunderstood; this can also be said of ossuaries.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

His “Ruins of Rome” etchings depict landmarks like the Pantheon and the Castel Sant’Angelo, but its most famous images show rubble-strewn gardens and crumbling bridges, and tricorn-hatted gentlemen wandering through collapsed temples and overgrown ossuaries.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2021

Gisotti told local Vatican media on Saturday that the two ossuaries are in “an area adjacent to the princesses' tombs” and that the works are carried out as “according to international protocols,” the BBC reported.

From Fox News • Jul. 20, 2019

On Saturday, experts will examine two ossuaries - small chambers where dead are buried - found in the first search.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2019

The old custom of way-side ossuaries contributed no doubt towards keeping strongly before the people the symbol and image of the great King.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn