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Remains of ‘female vampire’ found with sickle across her neck and a padlocked toe

Researchers from the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń found that the body in the village of Pień had a sickle placed over its neck, which they say would have been to prevent it from returning to mortality. Mirosław Blicharski/Aleksander Poznań

The team of researchers from the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń found that the body in the village of Pień had a sickle placed over its neck, which they say would have been to prevent her from returning to mortality, and a padlock on the big toe of her left foot.

Remains of Polish saint discovered in ‘the Hungarian Taj Mahal’

Belonging to the Polish saint Władysław I the Holy, the bones were discovered in an ossuary in Bory Castle in Székesfehérvá.

Baltic sea a ‘ticking bomb’ climate conference warns as eco experts urge action to remove tons of hazardous waste from seabed

Though the exact figure remains unknown, it is thought that anything between 40,000 tons to 100,000 tons of potential pollutants could lie at the bottom of the Baltic, including mines, barrels of chemical waste, and bombs.

Ashes of 8,000 Nazi-German victims found in mass grave

The  grim discovery of around 17.5 tons of human ashes were made near the former Soldau concentration camp, which is now the town of Działdowo by the Institute of National Remembrance.

Another Polish WWII memorial site found destroyed in Belarus

The desecrated memorial site in the village of Kaczycze, in the Grodno region of Belarus, was the final resting place for 89 Polish Home Army (AK) soldiers killed during a battle against Soviet NKVD forces near Raviny, Belarus, in January 1945.

‘Cursed soldier’ hero finally laid to rest after long-lost remains found in unmarked grave

Murdered by communists in Lublin Castle in 1949, the whereabouts of Henryk Wieliczko’s body remained unknown for six decades.

Archaeologists uncover bones of 5,000-year-old ‘large men’ dyed red

Piotr Włodarczak from the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences said the remains of the men, which are significantly taller than earlier finds, most likely belonged to people who arrived from the steppes of southern Russia or Ukraine.

Newly found fossils reveal a Jurassic park in Poland’s heartlands

Dinosaur specialists are hailing the find at the most spectacular dinosaur discovery ever in Poland, the biggest of its type in Europe and possibly the world.

Huge real life ‘Jurassic Park’ of dinosaur footprints found in Polish clay pit

Specialists say the 200-million-year-old fossils are the most spectacular dinosaur discovery ever made in Poland, the biggest of its type in Europe and possibly the world.

Remains of WWI soldier from ‘Kingdom of Württemberg’ found in Polish village

The discovery which included bits of the soldier’s uniform, a bayonet and ammunition holders was made during digging works beside railway tracks in the town of Nowa Sucha near Sochaczew.

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