Ancient 'curse' burial in Spain reveals violent ritual of social exclusion

Ancient 'curse' burial in Spain reveals violent ritual of social exclusion

Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable Iron Age burial in central Spain that suggests two men executed more than 2,200 years ago were deliberately denied traditional funerary rites and buried with deer antlers in what researchers believe was a ritual intended to protect the community from the dead. The discovery was made at the Iberian settlement of Cerro de las Cabezas, near Valdepeñas in Ciudad Real province, where excavations revealed the…