An ancient child’s ‘vampire burial’ included steps to prevent resurrection

The 10-year-old’s skeleton had a stone placed in the mouth

skull from Roman cemetery

STAY DEAD  A child buried in a fifth century Roman cemetery had a stone placed in his or her mouth as part of a funeral ritual to keep the body from coming back to life, scientists say.

D. Pickel/Stanford Univ.

Excavations in an ancient Roman cemetery turned poignantly eerie last summer.