800-year-old ‘hugging skeletons’ are genetically confirmed as Poland’s only medieval same-sex double burial
About 800 years ago, two people were buried in an embrace in a prominent church in Poland. Now, a new DNA analysis of the “hugging...
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1,200-year-old giant ‘death jar’ in Laos contains generations of human skeletons
Archaeologists excavating an unusual “death jar” in Laos have discovered that it was used to collect the partly decomposed remains of multiple generations of people...
Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a ‘giant’ who’d had brain surgery
Archaeologists have unearthed a Viking Age pit filled with the dismembered remains of 10 people in the outskirts of Cambridge, England. The unusual mass grave,...