Medieval times were hard. Between the bubonic plague, the Crusades, and serfdom, daily survival was a constant struggle. So this English village wasn't taking any chances on zombies.
Villagers may have burned, broken, and stabbed their deceased to keep corpses from springing back to life and roaming menacingly through the fields, a new study says.
A pit full of bones near the abandoned town of Wharram Percy suggest these bodies weren't simply buried and left to decompose. Sometime between the 11th and 13th centuries, villagers took a more proactive approach, a team of U.K. researchers wrote this week in the Journal of Archeological Science. Read more...
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