5,000-year-old skull fractures reveal human sacrifices in Ancient Egypt

Forensic reexaminations of 5,000-year-old skulls indicate over a dozen ancient Egyptian royal attendants met gruesome ends to honor their beloved, deceased pharaohs. The recent findings, detailed in a study published today in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, finally explain a collection of cold cases that have puzzled researchers for nearly a century.Like many Ancient Egyptian stereotypes, tales of living servants entombed with mummified pharaohs are greatly exaggerated. That