Ancient Egyptian mystery uncovered as 5,000-year-old skulls suggest royal servants were bludgeoned to death to follow their masters into the afterlife

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Ancient Egyptian mystery uncovered as 5,000-year-old skulls suggest royal servants were bludgeoned to death to follow their masters into the afterlife.

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New evidence has emerged suggesting servants in Ancient Egypt were deliberately killed to accompany their pharaohs into the next world.Dr Roselyn Campbell, an Egyptologist and bioarchaeologist at Purdue University, analysed 46 crania recovered from the cemetery of Umm el-Qa'ab near Abydos in southern Egypt, where First Dynasty rulers were interred roughly 5,000 years ago.Of those examined, 18 displayed signs of severe head injuries inflicted at or around the time of death, according to findings published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.The results indicate that at least 39 per cent of the individuals studied were likely struck down with fatal blows, providing the most robust physical evidence to date that ritual killings accompanied royal burials during the earliest era of unified Egyptian rule.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The pioneering British Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie excavated the skulls in the 1920s, uncovering a vast complex of pharaonic tombs...

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