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CT scan of a mummy
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Archaeological News: Archaeologists Stumble Upon 'Vampire' Skeleton in Bulgaria
Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a buried man with an iron stick in his chest in the Black Sea town of Sozopol.
The man, who was buried over 700 years ago, was stabbed multiple times in the chest and the stomach, as his contemporaries feared that he would raise from the dead as a…
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Archaeological News: Gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath poem goes on display
The skeleton of a Roman woman and the bones of the mouse and shrew that gnawed her ankle in her coffin, inspiring one of Sylvia Plath’s most haunting poems, have gone on display.
Plath saw the massive stone sarcophagus and its contents soon after it was excavated in the 1950s, when she was a…
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Cliffs End Farm - the pit burial by Wessex Archaeology on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
In one Late Bronze Age pit archaeologists found the skeletons of five people. The upper skeleton is an old man, with a child beside him. The lower one is a teenager with his head on the skull of a cow.
To find out more about the excavation site at Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, visit www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end/(via averagearchaeologist)
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Skeleton of anencephalic fetus with complicated spina bifada
Cranial deformation is due to failure of skull to form bony material. Kerckringii proposes that this was an effect of the spina bifada.
Specilegium Anatomicum nec non Anthropogeniae Ichnographiam. Theodori Kerckringii, 1717.
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so cool!
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Archaeological News: Archaeologists investigate discovery of skeleton
SOUTH BEND - A group who spent a recent afternoon hoping to find antiques buried deep in the ground such a bottles or old coins were, instead, greeted by a human skeleton.
One that possibly could have laid undisturbed for more than 100 years.The diggers uncovered the skeleton Oct. 6 behind a…
