A recent study of human remains found in the Himalayas attempts to unravel what happened at “Skeleton Lake”—but the results raise more questions than answers
Roopkund, a remote lake high in the Indian Himalaya, is home to one of archaeology’s spookiest mysteries: the skeletons of as many as 800 people. The most recent scientific study of those human remains,, attempts to unravel what happened at “Skeleton Lake”—but the results raise more questions than answers.
Why was a Mediterranean group at Roopkund, and how did they meet their end? Researchers don’t know and aren’t speculating. The people’s cause of death has remained elusive. Death by battle is unlikely: The remains belong to both men and women, and no weapons or signs of combat violence have been found. The victims were also healthy when they died, which rules out a mass epidemic.
One tantalizing possibility is that Roopkund victims were pilgrims who died during the Raj Jat after getting caught in a severe hailstorm. Parasols of a type used during the procession were reportedly found among the remains, and some individuals’ skulls bear unhealed fractures, perhaps a sign of large hailstones, the song’s lethal “iron balls.”
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