Nephele Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 This is my kind of archaeological news... A skeleton exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the "vampires" widely referred to in contemporary documents. Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found the skeleton of a woman with a small brick in her mouth while excavating mass graves of plague victims from the Middle Ages on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=7022975 -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 Oh yes, I saw this on BBC World news yesterday. Apparently, this is not the first such skeleton (having a brick lodged between its teeth) to be discovered. I think other similar ones were discovered in central Europe a few years back. I remember seeing a documentary about it on History Channel (I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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