Day 6 already?! Today we travelled about 90 minutes east of Prague to Kutna Hora. We visited multiple churches including the Sedlec Ossuary, which is a church that is decorated with human bones of people who died from wars and the Black Death Plague. I don’t just mean decorated, every inch is covered with the bones of over fifty thousand people. So doing the math (everyone has 206 bones)…there are millions of bones in there. As amazing as it was to see, it was also incredibly disturbing to see thousands of human skulls just up for display.
Another fascinating stop on our tour of Kutna Hora was the silver mines. We all dressed up in protective coats and helmets and descended 20 meters underground. We crouched through the underground tunnels where miners used to mine for coal. It was incredible to see the conditions people used to work in. I was really struggling to just walk through it with a big head lamp, so I can’t even imagine how people used to do difficult manual labor with just a candle providing them with any light. This tour offered us remarkable insight into medieval engineering and how they used their resources.
Swanson School of Engineering 