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Mass Grave of Women and Children Shows Brutality of Iron Age Culture

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Archaeologists working at Gomolava in northern Serbia recently uncovered a 2,800-year-old mass grave containing the remains of 77 people. As they sifted through the bone and debris, a chilling story began to unfold, which they detailed in a study published in Nature Human Behavior. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The people buried there all came to violent ends, killed by bludgeoning or stabbing, and almost al…

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What would have led to the brutal death of tens of thousands of people almost three thousand years ago? New archaeological analyses are helping to rebuild an extremely violent episode that took place in modern Serbia. Researchers have identified evidence that a group formed mostly by women and children was gathered and killed in a collective massacre during the Iron Age. Archaeological site with rupestres is discovered in Piauí during the openin…

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In 2020, an international and multidisciplinary team began extensive work with the aim of lifting the veil on the mystery of the Gomolava massacre in present-day Serbia. In the ninth century B.C., women and children died there under blows, without anyone knowing why.

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A grave containing the remains of more than seventy people and dozens of animals has been analyzed by archaeologists at the Gomolava site in Serbia. The analysis revealed that the victims were mostly women and children who died in brutal ways. The reason for the killings in late antiquity remains a mystery.

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The Gomolov site is the site of a bloody massacre 3,000 years ago, the victims of which were primarily women and children. The article, "A Serbian Iron Age Massacre. Its Victims Were Mainly Women and Children," comes from the website Wszystko co mojego.

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The Archaeologist broke the news in on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
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