Archaeologists fear for the greatest monuments and one of the “seven wonders of the world” – the Egyptian pyramids. The fact that the Egyptians began to bury their dead in the ancient land of the Pharaohs.
At 25 miles from Cairo is Manshiet Dahshur village, whose inhabitants have recently expanded the boundaries of the cemetery. For most of them, this decision seems quite logical.
It has long been portrayed in stories of the dead, at night, rising from their graves and sucking the blood of the living. Usually they are called vampires, ghouls or vampires. Different people have their own traditional methods of protection against blood-sucking undead. The most common of them – to drive the vampire in the heart of a stake: that it kills the “astral” nature of the vampire.
In 1994, the Czech Republic, near the town Chelyakovitsy, found a strange burial, divided by archaeologists at the end of X century. This place is called the “graveyard of the Vampire.” In 11 tombs were 13 skeletons associated with leather belts. Read the rest of this entry »