TRIBUNPEKANBARU.COM – Researchers excavating in excavation sites around the world often come up with gruesome, gruesome and shocking discoveries.
Those working in South America have dug mass graves where people in England have found kings under parking lots; and people in Siberia have even discovered the mummy of a woolly mammoth.
Archaeologists added another sinister find to their repertoire when excavating at an ancient Roman site in Italy they believe was used to bury those thought to have supernatural powers.
What they found was shocking: the skeletal remains of a child with a stone placed in his mouth.
According to the researchers, the stone was intentionally included as part of a burial ritual designed to stop disease and bodies from rising after burial.
A team from the Universities of Arizona and Stanford University as well as researchers from Italy, discovered the so-called “vampire burials” in 2018.
Nothing similar has been found since then.
Professor David Soren, who has been excavating the site at Teverina since 1987, described it as “very eerie and strange”.
“I’ve never seen anything like it. Locally, they call it the ‘Vampire of Lugnano’ he said.
The excavations were carried out at La Necropoli dei Bambini, or Children’s Cemetery, at a burial site dating from a malaria outbreak in AD 400 that killed many of the area’s vulnerable infants and young children.
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