For 2,000 years, the Igorot people of Sagada in the Philippines have laid their dead to rest by jamming their bodies into compact wooden coffins and hoisting them up to rest on brackets driven ...

The hanging coffins are an ancient burial tradition of the Igorot people. The hanging coffins of Sagada [AncientOrigins] Anna Ajayi Follow; High up in the remote mountains of the Philippines, in ...

What certainly doesn't come to mind is a vertical cemetery of coffins nailed to the side ... peoples' hanging-coffin 'burial' in Sagada, Philippines. ... story of the hanging coffins of Sagada.

Sagada is a town in the Mountain Province in northern part of the Philippines. Here's what you should take time to see when visiting.

The Philippines is a country made up of 7,107 islands, ... The hanging coffins of Sagada But the most unusual sights are the hanging coffins of the indigenous Igorot people.