"Hanging coffins" rest in a cave in Guizhou, southwest China. Wong believes the bodies would have been buried first and the bones put in the hanging coffins once the bodies had decomposed. The Guizhou cave with the coffins is only accessible by river, where bamboo rafts are the traditional form of transport. The Guizhou site Wong and I visited, like others, wasn't well-protected. In a steep gorge down river, local tourist authorities have erected fake hanging coffins -- perhaps an effort to satiate tourist curiosity and preserve the existing site.

Source: CNN July 07, 2017 00:36 UTC