The Bones of 40000: Kutna Hora

A short distance east of Prague is the UNESCO village of Kutna Hora. In its Sedlec Ossuary, around 40,000 bones of people over the centuries have been keep in the building. As cemetery space became limited over 500 years ago, the bones of people were moved into the church. In the 1800's, Frantisek Rindt, a woodcarver, was hired to arrange the bones. But he did it in a way that no one expected. He organised the piles of bones into artistic displays, a chandelier and an aristocrat's family crest.

Sedlec Ossuary