WARSAW Polish archeologists have uncovered a mysterious 12th-century tomb containing the bodies of two men and a woman who appear to have been executed for being vampires, the Pap Agency reported Saturday. The supposed bloodsuckers were found by chance, as their medieval resting place turned out to be right in the middle of a 5,000-year-old cemetery, where a dig was initially planned. Inside the tomb, a grim scene greeted excavators. A skeleton of a woman was found, hands and feet bound, beneath the remains of two men, whose heads, feet and hands had been hacked off with an ax. It is likely that the woman was buried alive. We have no idea what to make of this find, said Slawomir Salacinski, from Warsaw's Archeological Museum. One theory is that the men were mutilated by early vampire hunters to prevent them from returning to life. Another is that the two men were lovers of a witch who was buried alive, and bound to prevent her escaping from the tomb. No broomstick was found inside the tomb. (AFP)