Deviant Burials: What Archaeologists Actually Find When They Dig Up a Vampire

Archaeological excavation trench with string grid, trowels and a corroded iron sickle on a finds tray

Most of what we know about vampire belief comes from written sources: trial records, church complaints, travellers’ reports, the folklorists who arrived in the nineteenth century with notebooks. All of it is filtered through someone. Archaeology is the one line of evidence that is not — a grave is a thing people did, not a … Read more