Athenian Agora Excavations Per Daily Sabah, the nail and chicken remains worked in tandem with the writing to enact the curse. The bird was no older than 7 months when it died—probably because ...

A 2,300-year-old ceramic jar filled with the bones of a dismembered chicken was likely part of an ancient curse to paralyze and kill 55 people in ancient Athens, archaeologists say. The finding ...