I said to the priest, um, when do we get to the place where all the bones are?

And he says to me, but sir, we are here now.

And he turns on a flashlight and he points it down and I realized that the cracking of twigs that I had heard was us breaking rib cages.

I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas of Skira,

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we're headed to the Yamrahana Christos Church in Ethiopia.

We're going with photographer and author Paul Kudanaris.

We'll talk about assuaries, drooled skeletons, and the beauty found in death practices

the whole world over.

More.

After this. Where are you right now?

Where are you right now?

I'm about 20 minutes east of Death Valley on the Nevada side.

So pretty remote area.

Yeah. Yeah, it is. Like I said, you know, I'd like to get back to a city at some point in time.

That's Paul Kudanaris.

He's a photographer and author.

And for a good part of the pandemic, Paul has been living way out in Death Valley.

It's really sparse out here.

Well, he's been out there.

Paul has been spending his time exploring the landscape.

And by that, I mean, going deep into old abandoned minds.

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