Unusual burials of Celtic ‘warriors’ discovered in France point to violent deaths
Around 2,400 years ago, more than a dozen Celtic men — possibly warriors — were buried in unusual upright seated positions in what is now...
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1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to ‘protect’ both the living and the dead
A close-up of the skeleton shows a nail placed on top of the chest (just left of the spine). (Image credit: Special Superintendency of Rome)...
Babies weren’t supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise.
The mysterious Roman-era burial rite of pouring liquid gypsum over the dead wasn’t limited to elite adults as previously thought; it was also performed on...