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Kristina Killgrove

'We do not know of a similar case': 4,000-year-old burial in little-known African kingdom mystifies archaeologists

A human skeleton still in the dusty ground with two round vessels near its head.

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

In the grave, archaeologists discovered a ceramic vessel that contained charred plant and wood remains, animal bones and pieces of insects, all of which the team thinks were the remains of a funeral feast.

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