Best Pictures This Week: Frozen Pairs of Jeans in US, French Doctors Examines Guano Mummy, Viking Festival and More

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Nexter.org wants to show you the most memorable and brilliant photos from all over the world gathered during the last week.

Snow covers houses on Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, UK.

Source: Andrew Matthews/PA

Commuters ride motorcycles across a bridge from the Sanchung district, Taiwan. The mass of bikers moving down the bridge has been nicknamed the Motorbike Waterfall. It attracts many tourists and photographers every morning.

Source: David Chang/EPA

Frozen pairs of jeans stand unsupported in Saint Anthony Village, US.

Source: Social Media/Reuters

A Zora robot performs to encourage elderly people in care home in France. The Zora robot will promote emotional well-being by helping elderly people for exercises and manage stress through interactive technology.

Source: François Mori/AP

Philippe Charlier (right), a French forensic doctor, examines the Guano mummy with Ecuadorian technicians in a laboratory at the Cultural Heritage Institute of Ecuador. Charlier is studying the 16th-century mummy of a friar found in the town of Guano, Ecuador in 1949.

Source: Rodrigo Buendía/AFP/Getty Images

A Rubens drawing ‘Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms’ was auctioned for a record $8.2 million at Sotheby’s, New York.

Tristan Fewings/EPA

A young villager takes part in the Hindu ritual of Grebeg in Tegalalang, Gianyar Regency. Participants paint their faces and bodies and parade around their village to ward off evil spirits.

Firdia Lisnawati/AP

Guizer Jarl John Nicolson and his squad march through Lerwick as snow falls during the Up Helly Aa Viking festival which is held in Lerwick, Shetland.