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Vampire Tomb Surprises Archaeologists

The excavation of a headless child's skeleton believed to be linked to vampire folklore reveals burial customs aimed at preventing the dead from rising in the Middle Ages.While tending to ...

Strange Ways of Treating the Dead

Elevating the body to a mountaintop for vultures to consume or placing the corpse on a beautiful boat and pushing it out to sea are two of the many ways ...