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Archaeologists Found a 7,000-Year-Old Mass Grave Filled With 77 Headless Skeletons

But where did the skulls go?

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Finding just one skeleton with a severed head is disconcerting. Finding 77 of them in the same hole, all dating back about 7,000 years, is enough to make you think you’ve stumbled onto a cursed burial ground and accidentally unleashed something ancient that should have stayed buried.

That’s essentially what archaeologists encountered near the town of Vráble, one of the most important Neolithic excavation sites in all of Europe.

According to a new study published in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, the 78 individual remains were discovered piled in a ditch at the edge of a large settlement. There were 78 individual bodies discovered, and 77 of them were missing their heads.

This particular area flourished........

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