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and potentially fatal head trauma and 1846 individuals. About 3,000 DCE burial complexes included royal tombs, additional burial chambers, and a closed area stock to have been used for funeral ceremonies. Around the main structures were many smaller graves placed in rolls, some royal burial sites had hundreds of these. Early archaeologists believed these buried alongside the kings were victims of a practice known as Retainer Sacrifice. These are sacrifices where those close to the ruler are killed when the ruler died. Some are thought to have volunteered, others were forced. Modern forensics was able to determine that perimordum injuries had been inflicted deliberately. Linear fractures occurred and these would have produced unconsciousness, internal bleeding, and death. The remaining 28 years later.