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Why are the fonts so strange in this article? Have we opened a tomb we shouldn’t have, summoning Zalgo?
The fonts do not look so strange as the odd capitalisation like "The bodies BURIED at the site lukely DIED.." - really odd.
It's not just fonts or style, they're "hiding" weird Unicode code points in those words, I assume it's some form of SEO/filter-hopping technique, maybe to pass filters for shock videos (thus altering "grave" to "\u050d\u0280\u1d00v\u1d07", or Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Sje, Latin Letter Small Capital R, Latin Letter Small Capital A, v, Latin Letter Small Capital E). It makes it very hokey.
Seriously caught off guard by this as well. It's not the fonts, it's the characters used:

- The ʀᴇмᴀιɴs of a tall male and sixteen female skeletons were identified among hundreds of gold and silver artefacts and thousands of coins.

- The women are presumed to have been wives and concubines of the leader, who were κιʟʟᴇᴅ to accompany the warlord in the afterlife. The amount of treasure and the number of sᴀcʀιғιcᴇᴅ animals and people immediately led the archaeologists to consider that the site was certainly the ʙuʀιᴇᴅ site of a really powerful Mongol warlord.

Not sure why certain "grim" words are in special characters.

It's to avoid the newspeak censorship filters.

Same reason 'unalived' is now a word.

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