April
21
/ 2024
There’s always something new in archaeology, it would seem. In an unexpected development, archaeologists performing excavations in eastern Germany excavated a 4,200-year-old grave containing the skeleton of a man who was apparently believed to be at risk of becoming a “zombie”. The archaeologists reached this conclusion because this individual, who was somewhere between the ages of 40 and 60 when he died, was buried with a heavy stone slab laid across his legs. The slab was approximately three feet (one meter) in length, 20 inches (50 centimeters) wide and four inches (10 centimeters) thick, and its purpose would have been to prevent the grave’s occupant from digging his way out of his grave, as zombies (or, more accurately, revenants) have
