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5,000-year-old skulls show early Egyptian kings may have taken their court to the grave

A study of 46 skulls from the royal cemetery at Umm el-Qaab near Abydos, dating to around 3000 BC, found fatal blunt-force injuries on 18 of them. The skulls came from graves surrounding the tombs of King Djer, King Djet and Queen Merneith. Purdue University's Dr Rosalyn Campbell used modern forensic methods, reviving a theory first proposed by Flinders Petrie in the 1920s that court members — women, seal-bearers, inspectors and craftsmen — were killed to accompany early Egyptian kings in death rather than reburied later.

Source: 5,000-year-old skulls show early Egyptian kings may have taken their court to the grave — India Today

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