Isaac Michan is fascinated by the uncanny, by that fine line between the overly familiar and the eerily unrecognizable. The 34-year-old founder of Michan Architecture—a Mexico City–based studio ...

Mummified remains housed at St. Michan's Church in Dublin are thought to be destroyed after a fire was lit on the premises on Tuesday evening, June 11. An Garda Síochána said that they and emergency ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Venture down into the dark, musty stone vaults beneath St. Michan ...

The vaults at St Michan’s Church on Church Street in north inner-city Dublin reopened to the public, after being closed since February 25th, due to the theft of a mummified head and skull. Both were ...

THE St Michan’s Church mummy crypt has reopened to the public after the head of ‘The Crusader’ was returned to its resting place. The skull of the 800-year-old mummy was stolen from the catacomb back ...

A number of mummified remains have been destroyed or badly damaged following a fire at St Michan’s Church in Dublin. Gardaí arrested a man at the scene shortly afterwards and a full forensic ...

A MAN is being quizzed after two ancient skulls were stolen from a historic church. Sick thugs broke into St Michan’s Church on Church Street in Dublin and ransacked a number of crypts containing ...

Located about a block from the Old Jameson Distillery, St. Michan's Church was founded in 1095 and is the oldest church on the north side of the River Liffey in Dublin. Rebuilt in 1686 by William ...

In 2021, the Mexico City–based architect Isaac Michan received a commission to radically transform a functionalist apartment block in the well-heeled neighborhood of La Condesa. The building had been ...