Why do you ask?
Well, I was being semi sarcastic...But it is interesting: if we found something like this from say the Civil War, the description might be along the lines of grisly or the like. I suspect it has more to do with some level of identification with the interred....the further away from the dead you are, the more detached you can be and refer to the discovery as “spectacular”.
Just a random thought that struck me.