Found by archaeologists, the remains of a child "vampire", buried in an Italian cemetery 1,600 years old.
The scientists said the boy was buried more than 2,000 years ago, with a stone in his mouth, to prevent him from leaving the cemetery.
A research report found that a specific ritual was performed during the burial of the 10-year-old boy who was infected with malaria and was placed in a cemetery found in Rome, Italy, according to a report published by the Daily Mail website.
According to tests conducted on the skeleton, the child of the "vampire" who were known as "Lugano", said Professor "David Soren," archeologist at the University of Arizona, it is the strangest thing he saw in his life.
A third child, believed to have been 3 years old at the time of death, was also covered with stones. Preliminary tests indicate that the burial was in the fifth century at the time of the malaria outbreak. Experts believe that the cemetery was intended for infected children Diseases.
Some of the objects found inside the cemetery included claws of a pair of "crow" birds in about 5 graves. Similar cases have been found throughout Europe, Britain and Bulgaria earlier, and it is believed that this method of burial is linked to the "danger of the dead" and the fear of being taken out of the cemeteries to harm people, such as "vampires" or patients with an untreated epidemic.
In 2012, a tomb buried in a 30-year-old man was found in Bulgaria. His skeleton was connected to the ground with 4 iron clasps, while incense was placed on his grave.
Source:Daily Mail website