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Archaeologists Found Hundreds of Mass Graves So Large They Can Be Seen From Space

The reason people were buried with their animals nearby is the same reason pharaohs were entombed alongside treasures.

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Sometimes a civilization builds monuments to its own obliteration so grandiose that they can be viewed from space. That’s basically the premise of a new study covered in The Conversation, written by archaeologists Julian Cooper, Maël Crépy, and Marie Bourgeois, who spent years scanning satellite imagery of eastern Sudan’s Atbai Desert looking for traces of ancient human activity, and they found it in the form of 260 massive circular burial sites scattered across nearly 1,000 kilometers of desert.

The team uncovered a series of enormous structures, some of which........

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