Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
archaeologists found a skull with a brick stuffed between its teeth in a mass plague grave in Venice. Medieval gravediggers believed the dead were chewing through their burial cloth to rise again and spread disease, so they stopped them the only way they knew how.
archaeologists found a skull with a brick stuffed between its teeth in a mass plague grave in Venice. Medieval gravediggers believed the dead were chewing through their burial cloth to rise again and spread disease, so they stopped them the only way they knew how.
