#14: Miniature Articulated Skeleton, 1890s
Nowadays, people would rather forget about death, but they loved being reminded about it for a substantial part of human history. Why? Well, let’s say it was a lot closer then than it is now. We’ve got modern medicine: antibiotics, vaccines, cancer treatments. But back then, death was always just around the corner…

However, in Victorian times, everybody was fascinated with death, and people loved being reminded of its inevitability. But what we find weird is that someone paid hundreds of thousands for this gold skeleton in the modern day… What would someone want with this artifact today?