India’s Skeleton Lake contains the bones of mysterious European migrants

Not all of the hundreds of skeletons at the Himalayan site are from the same place or period

Skeleton Lake

Human bones found at Roopkund Lake in the Himalayas yielded DNA from an enigmatic group of eastern Mediterranean people that traveled to the high-altitude site around 220 years ago.

Atish Waghwase

High in the Himalayas, the bones of several hundred mysterious people lie scattered around a small lake, earning it the nickname Skeleton Lake.