"Alien-Like" Skulls & the Blood of a French King

Skulls Like Aliens Found in Northern Mexican Cemetery

Something very strange was unearthed by archaeologists recently in a cemetery in Mexico that dates back 1,000 years. Human skulls that are deformed.

But it is more than that, because these skulls were deformed on purpose. It already had been known that this practice was relatively common in Central America, but these findings showed that the practice spread much further north than previously believed.

This cemetery was actually discovered by local villagers of Onavas, in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, back in 1999.

I got the information for this part of the blog  from the article - "Alien Skulls Excavatged in Mexico" by Charles Choi, a LiveScience contributor. To read more about it, here is the link:

http://www.livescience.com/25743-alien-like-skulls-excavated-mexico.html


King Louis's Blood Discovered?

Also, in a very different story that's related only because it applies to a finding about a historical event hundreds of years ago, the blood of a decapitated French King has apparently been definitively verified by scientists.

King Louis XVI was, rather famously (or perhaps infamously is the better word in this case?) killed during the French Revolution, beheaded by the guillotine. His wife, Queen Marie Antoinette of Austria, was also beheaded, as were many thousands of others during the "Reign of Terror" phase of the Revolution, which is generally seen as excessive, when things seemed to spiral out of control.

According to a legend of the time, one person that was present for the beheading, he used a handkerchief to soak up the blood of the decapitated king, and then placed that handkerchief in a gourd.

Now, well over two hundred years later, scientists have confirmed that the blood does indeed belong to that of King Louis XVI, by matching the DNA of the blood with the DNA from a detached a mummified head of a relative of Louis XVI, Henri IV. The findings were published in the December 30th editions of the Forensic Science International journal.

I got the information for this part of the blog from the article - "Squash Holds Decapitated King Louis XVI's Blood" by Tia Ghose, a LiveScience Staff Writer. To read more, click on the link below:

http://www.livescience.com/25914-squash-holds-king-louis-xvi-blood.html