‘It Would Have Been Very Gruesome’: Researchers Just Proved That Egyptian Rulers Were Buried With Dozens Of Human Sacrifices
All That's Interesting | 10.10.2026 04:45
In Umm el-Qaab, a royal funerary complex in Abydos, ancient Egypt’s first pharaohs were laid to rest some 5,000 years ago — alongside dozens of their subjects. For decades, this burial arrangement puzzled archaeologists and historians, largely because many of these people seemed to have died at the same time, and it wasn’t a case of natural causes.
