‘It Would Have Been Very Gruesome’: Researchers Just Proved That Egyptian Rulers Were Buried With Dozens Of Human Sacrifices

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Famed Egyptologist Flinders Petrie always had a hunch that the ancient bones he excavated at the Umm el-Qaab tombs in the 1920s came from subjects who were sacrificed and buried alongside the pharaohs, but there was no hard evidence to back up this claim — until now. The post ‘It Would Have Been Very Gruesome’: Researchers Just Proved That Egyptian Rulers Were Buried With Dozens Of Human Sacrifices appeared first on All That's Interesting.