Washington, Sept 18 (ANI): Archaeologists have unearthed two eighth-century skeletons in Ireland with stones shoved in their mouths - possibly indicating that people feared their rising up from their graves like zombies.
The medieval skeletons, which were featured in a British documentary last week, were excavated between 2005 and 2009 at Kilteasheen, near Loch Key by a team of archaeologists led by Chris Read from the Institute of Technology in Sligo, Ireland and Thomas Finan from the University of St. Louis.
The find suggested that one of the men was between 40 and 60 years old, and the other was a young adult, probably between 20 and 30.
The two men were buried side by side and each had a baseball-sized rock shoved in his mouth.
"One of them was lying with his head looking straight up. A large black stone had been deliberately thrust into his mouth," Discovery News quoted Chris Read, head of Applied Archaeology at IT Sligo, as saying.
"The other had his head turned to the side and had an even larger stone wedged quite violently into his mouth so that his jaws were almost dislocated," he added.
Though a total of 137 skeletons have already been dug up, archaeologists believe that some 3,000 skeletons spanning from 700 to 1400 are still buried at the site. (ANI)
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