Archaeologists find the tomb of a 1,550 year old child & # 039; Vampire & # 039;
Archaeologists find the tomb of a 1,550 year old child & # 039; Vampire & # 039;
During the excavations of an old Roman mansion near Lugnano in Teverina, in the Italian region of Umbria archaeologists, a cemetery of Roman children was discovered at the end of the Eighties. Now researchers have discovered the skeleton of a child who was probably in the grim reputation of being a vampire. At least special measures were taken at his funeral to prevent the dead from returning.
The skeleton had a large stone placed in its mouth.
As the team around Professor David Soren of the University of Arizona and David Pickel of Stanford University, together with Italian colleagues, currently report in the journal "GGG", the "Necropoli dei Bambini" discovered in 1987 is a cemetery for small children Buried here in the middle of the fifth century as a result of an epidemic of malaria that caused many victims in the remains of a Roman villa.
One of the children skeletons now uncovered stands out among the large number of children buried here: it is the skeleton of a 10-year-old boy, who had a large stone placed in his mouth, probably as part of the funeral ritual.
"It is extremely strange and strange"
The procedure is already known as "vampire burial" and was probably designed to prevent the buried from infecting the living as undead or even infecting them with the diseases they once died from. The survivors hoped that the procedure would also help them to contain the epidemics.
"I've never seen anything like it, it's extremely weird and weird," said David Soren, an anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, who has overseen archaeological excavations in the cemetery since 1987. "Locally, they call it the 'Lugano Vampire' "
Until now, archaeologists had believed that the cemetery was reserved for small children. In fact, most of the more than 50 findings so far are skeletons of fetuses or young children.
The discovery of the 10-year-old boy, whose age could be determined by the development of his teeth, but whose gender is still unclear, now suggests that the cemetery was also used for the burial of older children. In fact, there are still intact parts of the cemetery where archaeologists hope to find more.
The Romans feared the return of the dead.
"The finding of the alleged vampire can tell us a lot about the devastating malaria epidemic that hit Umbria some 1,500 years ago," explains Pickel and continues: "The skeleton and the nature of his funeral program societyThe reaction to the epidemic and how it was handled. However, the finding so far has also represented a "certain anomaly" in the environment of the other tombs of the children's cemetery.
In fact, archaeologists had already found evidence in the graves of other children of the belief in magical practices and witchcraft in the form of raven claws, turtle bones, small bronze cauldrons filled with ashes and the remains of young dogs that they had apparently been sacrificed during the funeral. In addition, the hands and feet of a three-year-old girl were laden with stones, a relatively common practice designed to prevent the dead from walking again.
"We know from the Romans how much they feared to return the dead and that they used magic and witchcraft to forbid evil, or what was supposedly trapped in the bodies of the deceased, of the grave," says Soren.
In the case of the children buried here, this "evil" was probably malaria and, although an exact DNA analysis is still pending, a dental abscess of the "child vampire" also speaks of a malaria infection and, therefore, suggests that this child also fell. Victim of the epidemic.
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