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Article: Medieval 'vampire' skull found near Venice.
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- March 9, 2009
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Medieval 'vampire' skull found near Venice
London, Mar 9 (PTI) -- Anthropologists have claimed that a skeleton exhumed from a grave in Italy is an evidence of the medieval fear of "vampires".
A team in Italy has found evidence that the remains of the woman's skull with a rock thrust into its jaws is actually the first known example of the "vampires" widely referred to in contemporary documents, the 'New Scientist' reported.
In fact, the team found the skull, with its mouth agape and a large slab of rock forced into its mouth, while excavating a mass grave dating from the Middle Ages on an island near Venice.
Female "vampires" were ...