Twenty decapitated skeletons have been unearthed during the recent dig of a Roman cemetery near York in the UK. Some show signs of a violent death. Others were dispatched more cleanly. Were they executed or killed in a purge?
8000 years ago in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile many tiny children, babies and even fetuses were painstakingly mummified after death by their people - the Chinchorro.
Excavations of an abandoned cemetery in Griswold, Connecticut, uncover a grave dating from the 1800s in which the bones had been re-arranged in the pattern of the 'skull and cross bones'.
