Dec 172014
 

An ancient (well, Roman & Byzantine era) Egpytian graveyard with something like a *million* corpses in it:

Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed in Egypt

A portion I found particularly interesting:

While the database is in the early stages, it has already provided some intriguing initial results. Muhlestein said he and the other researchers can use the database to “show us all of the blond burials, and [it shows] they are clustered in one area, or all of the red-headed burials, and [it shows] they’re clustered in another area.”

Doesn’t say how many blonds & redheads are there or what fraction of the total they make up, but one generally doesn’t expect to find much of *any* blonds & redheads in ancient Egypt.

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