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Archaeologists in England have found a Roman horse that died 2,000 years ago.
The horse was discovered buried in a pit believed to have been used by the Romans for quarrying gravel. The horse had a broken leg, which is typically a death sentence, but in this case, the leg shows signs of healing, indicating that it was euthanized after the injury.
The animal may have been a working horse used for bringing construction materials to a nearby settlement, or it could have been someone’s pet.
The Romans highly regarded horses, and they had stallions from around the world, including Persia, Armenia, Turkey, Spain, and Libya. In other news, the Aztec death whistle was a terrifying whistle used to intimidate enemies.
The Aztecs were skilled at creating whistles that imitated animal calls and windstorms, but the death whistle was likely used for dark death rituals.
Only a few real ancient whistles remain in the world, one of which was found in the hand of a skeleton sacrificed in a death ritual and buried outside a temple dedicated to the wind god. In Greece, archaeologists uncovered an ancient tomb on the island of Crete belonging to a man from the Minoan civilization who died around 1400 BC. The Minoans flourished for about 1200 years before their extinction, and myths claim that their capital city of Canases was home to the legendary King Minos, who commissioned a labyrinth to keep the monstrous Minotaur trapped.
Evidence of a suspected labyrinth has been found, but nobody knows if it contained a beast with the body of a human and the head of a bull. In Siberia, archaeologists found a clay likeness of a young man in an ancient burial mound. The clay head was found to be made not only out of clay but also sheep bones, with a ram’s skull underneath the outer layer of clay. The purpose of this remains a mystery.
