An article in Popular Archaeology describes popular belief in zombies among the ancient Greeks.
Greeks imagined scenarios in which reanimated corpses rose from their graves, prowled the streets and stalked unsuspecting victims, often to exact retribution denied to them in life.
Tantalizingly, that's all we can see from the open web. The British Daily Mail has access to more, apparently:
[I]n two of the tombs, the skeletons found appear to have been buried in specific ways to keep them in the grave.
One body, found in a tomb labelled 653, contained a person of unknown sex, who appears to have suffered from serious malnutrition and illness during the life.
Their body, however, had been completely covered by large fragments of amphora.
For example,
A child aged between eight and 13 years old, shown in the sketch above, was also found in the Passo Marinaro cemetery with five rocks that had been placed on top of the body to trap it in the grave
(many thanks to Charles "more weight" Cameron)
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