Burial ceremonies as depicted in the Book of the Dead of Hunefer.
© The Trustees of the British Museum
There is often a distinct fragrance of pine or cedar, with some spiciness from cloves, cumin, myrrh, and warm notes from plants, flowers and trees.
Illustration of the graves by Mirosław Kuźma.
Leszek Gardeła
The findings suggest that the depth of the relationships Viking-age people had with animals have been dramatically underrepresented.
The reburied remains of the ‘founding father’.
Photograph by S. Rottier.
In the largest study of its kind, researchers have used DNA from a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France to reconstruct the lives of everyday Neolithic people.