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| Lake Rupkund-BBC Capture |
About 800 human remains were found in a lake located in the Indian Himalayas, amplifying curiosity, the British BBC reported on the 1st.
The location in question is Lake Lupkund, located at an altitude of 5029m in the Indian Himalayas.
After the British Forest Service discovered the remains in 1942, the lake has been nicknamed’Skull Lake’. Skeletons are visible only when the snow melts, and about 800 remains have been discovered to date.
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| Remains found in the lake-BBC capture |
For more than half a century, anthropologists and scientists have been studying the remains. The most widely recognized theory so far is that the king and his followers were killed in a blizzard about 800 years ago, and that it was a cemetery for the victims of the epidemic.
However, as a result of the recent carbon dating of the remains, it is revealed that the remains are more than 1200 years old, so all of the above theories have proved to be limited. Experts say that because it is a Himalayan highland, the lake is covered with ice for most of the year, and the remains can be preserved for a long time.
What’s more interesting is that genetic analysis revealed that the remains were made up of different races. One group has genes similar to those of today’s people living in India, while the other group has genes similar to those living in Europe today, especially Crete, Greece.
The research team recently discovered that a number of pilgrims died in a blizzard during a Hindu pilgrimage between the 8th and 10th centuries in a local temple’s inscription, and it is speculated that this may be related.
However, there are parts that cannot be explained by this. Why were the bodies of people living on the Mediterranean island of Crete found in the Himalayas.
“We’re curious,” said Hani Eadaoin of Harvard University, the head of the research, and “we’re still looking for answers,” the BBC said.