death customs
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Bronze Age Italians Never Cleaned Up Their Family Funeral Pyre
A team of anthropologists studying Salorno, a stretch of scorched earth in northern Italy, say the site is a Late Bronze Age cremation platform where the remains of at least 172 individuals may have been burned. What’s more, the researchers believe the remains were simply left on the ground for the last 3,000 years.
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Discovery of Ornate, 10,000-Year-Old Infant Grave Surprises Archaeologists
An elaborate burial from the Mesolithic Period is surprising archaeologists, not because of decoration of the tomb but its occupant: an infant girl who lived just 40 to 50 days. The 10,000-year-old burial is providing a unique look at the baby’s brief life and changing ideas about how some prehistoric humans treated their dead. The…
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Striking Bronze Age Coffin Found in Golf Course Pond
Archaeologists in England have analysed a half-ton coffin dating to the early Bronze Age that was found under a golf course in Lincolnshire county. The coffin, cut from a single oak tree and thought to be about 4,000 years old, contained human remains, a hafted axe, and a bed of plant material meant to cushion…
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Seriously Gruesome Death of an Egyptian Pharaoh Detailed in New Study
The forensic analysis of a 3,600-year-old mummy is providing fascinating new insights into a pivotal Egyptian pharaoh and the circumstances of his exceptionally violent death.