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Post by Mairi on Oct 14, 2014 15:38:10 GMT -5
A "vampire grave" containing a skeleton with a stake driven through its chest has been unearthed by a man known as "Bulgaria’s Indiana Jones". Professor Nikolai Ovcharov – a crusading archaeologist who has dedicated his life to unearthing mysteries of ancient civilisations – said that he had made the discovery while excavating the ruins of Perperikon, an ancient Thracian city located in southern Bulgaria, close to the border with Greece. The city, inhabited since 5,000 BC but only discovered 20 years ago, is believed to be the site of the Temple of Dionysius – the Greek God of wine and fertility. And among the finds at the site, which includes a hilltop citadel, a fortress and a sanctuary, are a series of "vampire graves". On Thursday Professor Ovcharov announced that he had found a remarkably-preserved Medieval skeleton at the site in what he termed "a vampire grave". www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bulgaria/11153923/Vampire-grave-found-in-Bulgaria.html
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Post by lilithavain on Jan 24, 2016 18:12:53 GMT -5
Wow.... That is so cool!!! I wonder what this would mean for the vampyre community if this turned out to be scientifically proven true.
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Post by berkthefirst on Jan 24, 2016 23:29:29 GMT -5
That was mostly just due to people being scared of vampires. the funny thing is humans were more or less the ones causing the deaths, because vampires would be killed if they asked someone to be thier donor. in other words, vampires back then were forced by the people to kill for blood and it turned into a cycle of fear
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Post by berkthefirst on Jan 24, 2016 23:32:48 GMT -5
They basically just staked any corpse they suspected of being vampires. This is also where a lot of myths come from, because they often mistook normal signs of decay as vampiric traits. For example, fresh blood coming up through the nose ears and mouth, as well as bolted stomachs and other things
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