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Sunday, February 14, 2021

POLAND - Experts Still Stumped By Child Buried With A Bird In Its Mouth [Ancient Origins, 2020]

Title:
Experts Still Stumped By Child Buried With A Bird In Its Mouth
 
Author:
Elizabeth Moore
 
Published:
Ancient Origins, 13 October 2020

From the article:
Between the 18th and 19th century in Poland, a child was given an unusual burial within the Tunel Wielki Cave. A ritualistic burial like this surely would have been a spectacle, however, all information about the child and chaffinch skulls has been lost.

While rummaging amongst some dusty boxes filled with artifacts from old research projects at the University of Warsaw, Dr. Małgorzata Kot came across the aforementioned human remains.