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In the mouth of the corpse, there was a stone, part of the ritual to bury the vampire to prevent disease and prevent the body from resurrecting after death.

The body of a 10-year-old child is considered a vampire in ancient Rome just discovered in Italy, according to The Sun.

The body of a 10-year-old child has just been discovered in Italy.

The houses excavated this body at a place in Teverina, Umbria.

In the child's mouth was a stone, part of an ancient vampire ritual to prevent disease and prevent the body from resurrecting after death, researchers from the US and Italy said.

Professor at Arizona Regents University, David Soren, who has been excavating the area since 1987, described vampire burial rituals as "extremely strange and bizarre".

The body was found at the Children's Cemetery, a burial place dating back to the year 400.

He said: "I have never seen anything like that. Locally, they call this Vampire of Lugnano ".

The body of the child whose undetermined gender is found at the Children's Cemetery, a burial site dating from 400 years.

Excavation director David Pickel said: "The age of this child, its unique decomposition and the stone placed in his mouth show an abnormality in an inherently unusual cemetery."

Pickel added: "This continues to show the uniqueness of the children's cemetery in Lugnano."

Previously, people thought that cemeteries were only used for babies, toddlers and fetuses. The oldest body found so far is a three-year-old girl.

In the child's mouth, there was a stone, part of an ancient burial ritual to prevent illness and prevent the body from resurrecting after death.

But the new finding shows that the cemetery could be used to bury older children, according to biologist Jordan Wilson.

Wilson said: "There is still a part of the cemetery that we have not yet excavated, so we do not know if we can find older children."

Previous excavations have discovered children's bones along with magic-related objects such as crows, toads, copper cauldrons containing ash and dog corpses, seem to be sacrifices.

"We know that the Romans are very interested in this and will even use magic to ward off evil , " Soren said.

Similar rituals were found in other locations, including Venice, where an old 16th-century woman was dubbed the "Venice Vampire" found with a brick in her mouth in 2009. .