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A Child is a Vampire.
Over the course of several years, Poliski has directed excavations at Pien, where his team has found roughly 100 tombs. The most recent digs turned up 13 more tombs.
According to Poliski, the village’s regular cemetery, which would have been inside the holy walls of a church but whose location is unknown, was not the graveyard.
Those who could not afford it were buried elsewhere because it would have been expensive in the church cemetery.
Even though they could afford a grander funeral, these “abandoned souls” appear to have been interred outside of the church in this less prestigious cemetery, according to Poliski.
The “vampire” woman who was found last year with a sickle draped around her neck, for instance, was undoubtedly wealthy: Archaeologists uncovered gold threads in her clothing and flakes of gold on the palette of her skull, which suggested she had ingested a gold-containing medicine.
To learn more about the woman, Poliski and his team are awaiting the findings of an examination of the DNA in her bones. However, their findings imply that she was gravely ill.
The team plans to examine the DNA of the recently discovered remains. The gender of the infant is yet unknown, according to Poliski.
