- The Knife-Armed Man: While excavating a 1400-year-old necropolis in northern Italy, archaeologists found the remains of a man with a knife blade prosthetic arm. Analysis of the man’s bones revealed that his arm had been removed through blunt-force trauma below the elbow and that he lived for some time afterward with the knife blade prosthesis in place of a hand.
- The Most Unlucky Man: At Pompeii, the site of Mt. Vesuvius’ disastrous eruption that killed the entire town in 79 CE, a man was found who was thought to have been crushed to death by a massive falling stone. Although archaeologists later found that the man’s head and upper torso were intact, they initially hypothesized that the rock had landed on him as he attempted to flee, hindered by an infection in his leg.
- Pits Full of Heads: Archaeologists working along the Great Wall of China published new findings that describe a previously largely unknown early stratified society, the Shimao polity. Along with thousands of jade items, researchers discovered that human sacrifice was an important feature of this society. At least six pits filled with the decapitated heads of young women were excavated at the site.
- Polish 'vampire' burials: The real story behind Eastern European vampires is quite possibly creepier than the fictionalized tales of Dracula. Between the 1600s and 1700s in Poland, some people were buried with sickles over their necks or rocks wedged under their chins. These precautions were taken to prevent the dead from rising again as vampires who, locals believed, would return to suck the blood of friends and family. In 2014, researchers found that the Vampire burial at Drawkso cemetery in Poland were the bodies of locals who had not died of trauma. The researchers told Live Science, they were likely victims of a cholera epidemic that would have felled them rapidly.
- Girolamo segato unusual preservation: The medical science eccentric, The Girolamo segato finds an unusual method of preserving a dead one. He made an unknown mixture of chemicals and injected a person who died a few moments ago. The body transformed into what looks like a strange doll with teeth outside looking at others. Anyone gets frightened to see it as a human body preserved over years.
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