About 6,200 years ago in what is now Croatia, 41 people were murdered and their remains were put into a mass grave. There have been many questions regarding the massacre and now new DNA analysis has deepened the mystery.
Back in 2007, a man living in a small village in the hills of Potočani, Croatia, began digging in the ground to build a garage and that’s when he unearthed the grave holding the remains of the 41 victims. The pit was just 2 meters in diameter (6.6 feet) and one meter in depth (3.3 feet).
Archaeologists from the University of Zagreb took a look at the mass grave and at first they thought they were the remains of soldiers from World War II or the Croatian War of Independence. However, after DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating of the bones, they determined that the victims were from a much earlier time period – around 4200 BC.
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