reader comments 48 with 33 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists working near the small Croatian village of Potočani made a grim discovery in 2007. In a shallow pit, just a meter deep and two meters wide, they found the jumbled bones of at least 41 people. Radiocarbon dating on several of the bones revealed ..
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Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences reader comments 41 with 32 posters participating Share this story Archaeologists excavated part of the old city center of Yaroslavl, Russia, between 2005 and 2010 as part of an effort to restore its cathedral. During the digs, they discovered nine medieval mass graves holding the remains of at ..
Enlarge / This is the Late Neolithic mass grave at Koszyce, Poland. Image courtesy of Piotr Wodarczak reader comments 64 with 36 posters participating Share this story Sometime between 2880 and 2776 BCE, 15 family members were hastily buried together in a single pit, their shattered skulls telling a story of violent death. Yet someone ..