Why would you want to drink boggy old sarcophagus juice when there are more palatable tomb beverages to hand? In the tomb of the First Dynasty Egyptian queen Meret-Neith, archaeologists have uncovered a wealth of grave goods that includes hundreds of...

The analysis, the researchers say, shows that this was not built all at once, but in stages over a long period of time. This suggests these burial buddies may not have been slain as ritual sacrifices after all, but laid to rest with the queen, perhaps as an honor, after they had lived their lives.