Archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a 5,000-year-old tomb with 14 articulated skeletons inside, Scotland's national museums organization announced Tuesday.
Archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a 5,000-year-old tomb on one of the Scottish Orkney Islands, National Museums Scotland said in a statement Tuesday.The 'incredibly rare' tomb, which is from the Neolithic era, was largely destroyed without record in the 19th century, according to the museum. Only 12 of such tombs have been found in Orkney. They're considered 'the pinnacle of Neolithic engineering in northern Britain,' the museum said.
'The preservation of so many human remains in one part of the monument is amazing, especially since the stone has been mostly robbed for building material,' Vicki Cummings, head of Cardiff University's School of History, Archaeology and Religion, said in a statement.Cummings co-directed the excavation with Dr. Hugo Anderson-Whymark of National Museums Scotland. The Holm tomb was buried beneath a pasture field.
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