Death: A graveside companion ammonite Rust-resistant metal ages naturally with

Rust-resistant metal ages naturally with patina

and even threaded

Chalcopyrite is much softer than pyrite and can be scratched with a knife

More than good-looking props

Ammonite was thought to possess the power of Zeus

Death: A graveside companion ammonite Rust-resistant metal ages naturally withThe ultimate death compendium, featuring the world's most extraordinary artistic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected corpses and "anatomical Eves,"