20 Cringe-Inducing Archeological Discoveries

The number-one rule of time travel is never go backwards if you can help it, and that's not just true for anyone who's not male, white, rich, and healthy. The past was a brutal place even for the most privileged. Every day was a fight against famine, pestilence, the other equine Beatles, and actual medieval torture. Also, it's necessarily full of dead people.

Fortunately, the past is gone… mostly. Remnants of humanity's worst crimes, rituals, and weapons are still being unearthed all the time -- not to mention, you know, all those dead people. Just so many dead people, you guys. That's why one Reddit user asked r/AskReddit, “What is, in your opinion, the most disturbing archaeological discovery?”