Modern forensics reveals human sacrifice in ancient Egypt's royal burials

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Forensic analysis of First Dynasty royal burials in Egypt found many household officials and artisans buried around the tombs of kings more than 500 years before the Great Pyramid. The unusually high number of deaths occurring at the same time raises the possibility that they were killed as human sacrifices.

Over 500 years before the building of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, First Dynasty kings were buried in a tomb surrounded by many burials of household officials and artisans—many of which seem to have taken place at the same time, a suspiciously high number of simultaneous deaths.