Many of the skeletons appear to have been dug up and decapitated — in order to keep these suspected vampires from rising out of the grave.Maciej StromskiAs evidenced by this Polish burial, people once believed that decapitation could end the “vampire curse.”
While overseeing the expansion of a road in Luzino, Poland, archaeologists came across a mass grave near a church. But this wasn’t just any graveyard. Upon closer examination, the archaeologists found that several of the dead had been treated as “vampires. Read More...
King Aethelred II of England was crowned when he was just 10 years old, and his reign was marked by a series of blunders so bad that he was usurped by the King of Denmark in 1013.Public DomainAn image of Aethelred the Unready from the 13th-century Chronicle of Abingdon
In 1013, King Aethelred II of England lost his throne to the King of Denmark, Sweyn Forkbeard. He’d been crowned king 35 years earlier and the age of 10. Read More...
Not quite an asteroid, not quite a planet: the dwarf planet Ceres is filled with mysteries and the space probe Dawn is on a mission to uncover them.Meet the dwarf planet, Ceres. Its categorization has less to do with Snow White’s tiny friends and more with its gravitational impact on surrounding celestial bodies.
This means that Ceres has the mass of a planet, but it hasn’t become gravitationally dominant. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Read More...
