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Why Did Ancient Italians Bury Thousands of Clay Body Parts?
- runnr_az 10y agoThey probably fought an army of golems. And won.
- astrodust 10y agoMaybe an artisan misread an order that was written with Roman numerals and made a thousand of something instead of four.
- amcientAliems 10y agoI swear to god, I thought that read "ancient aliens." I got half way through the article before I went back and checked the title.
- lucideer 10y agoI read the same
- lgats 10y agoSounds like it could be a school project
- wanda 10y agoPerhaps they were considered distasteful and fell out of fashion after Mt. Vesuvius turned Pompeii into a clay diorama.
- sdrothrock 10y agoOne thing that came to mind when I read about mass burial was a ritual disposal. For example, in Japan, there are ritual disposals of daruma dolls, ema, and omamori (protective charms). If the body parts were part of a type of a prayer/charm fad, it makes sense that there would be some kind of ritual disposal -- it seems like bad mojo to throw out someone's uterus, for example.