January
24
/ 2017
More than 100 sets of ancient human remains have been excavated from four cemeteries near the ruins of a medieval Christian monastery in Sudan. Researchers were surprised to find that many of the skeletons had been stripped of their flesh before they were buried. Monks Probably Had their Flesh Removed Shortly After their Death As we reported last week, archaeologists from McMaster University announced recently the discovery of four large cemeteries near the remains of a medieval Christian monastery in Sudan. At least 123 individuals have been excavated so far, while some of the burials included corpses laid to rest in very odd ways. The skeletons found in one of the four cemeteries belonged to males, suggesting that the monks
