The lake was thought to be the site of an ancient catastrophic event that left several hundred people dead, but the first ancient whole genome data from India shows that diverse groups of people died at the lake in multiple events approximately 1000 years apart.
Credit: Atish Waghwase
Some of the bodies studied seem to have messed up dates according to their dna.
Lord, I was born a ramblin’ man...
Wow, kind of strange. Some sort of one way multi-pilgrimages chasing myths at this lake?
Tired of watching the Eiffel Tower rust?
Are the sidewalks of San Francisco making you feel crappy?
The Tourist Board of Roopkund invites you to come and see the dead bodies in our lake!
Enjoy our evening fish fry with the fresh caught salmon from Lake Roopkund.
Gourmet chefs rave about the taste of our fish!
“They taste like chicken!”
Marco
Polo
The people died from repeated blows to the back of their heads, which is consistent with local stories of killer hailstorms. Typically when there are mass deaths around a lake the culprit is a suddenly release of gas from the lake that suffocates them.
Until now, I’d never heard of this weirdness — and several online articles didn’t hep much, either. One article, however mentioned a National Geographic study.
Are you aware if anything on Roopkund Lake and its mass of skeletal (with flesh) remains was ever published in Nat Geo?
Thanks,
TXnMA
“14 individuals with ancestry that is most closely related to people who live in the eastern Mediterranean, especially present-day Crete and Greece’
could be descendants of remnants of Alexander the Great’s army when he invaded India ...
