An anthropologist from the United States conducted a re-examination of skulls discovered in the burials accompanying the tombs of the first Egyptian pharaohs. These remains were excavated more than a hundred years ago in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Umm el-Kaab.
During the new study, traces of pre-mortem injuries were found on multiple of these skeletal remains. These findings support the hypothesis that the burial rites of the first pharaohs of the dynasty involved human sacrifices, which has been a subject of long-standing debate among Egyptology specialists.
The results of this research were presented in a scientific publication published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.
