The huge monument—thought to date to the 4th millennium B.C.—may be one of the longest of its kind, according to researchers.
Archaeologists have unearthed a huge prehistoric monument during excavations along a highway route in the Czech Republic.The monument is a large burial mound measuring around 620 feet in length and roughly 50 feet across at its widest point, a team from the University of Hradec Králové announced.The structure—located at the border of the villages of Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the eastern part of the country's Bohemia region—is thought to date back to the 4th millennium B.C.
The first central burial features a human skeleton on its left side facing north, with an accompanying ceramic vessel as a grave offering.The second central burial features another body on its left side while facing north, but contains an offering of five chipped stone artifacts made of flint.This grave was disturbed by a younger pit that the archaeologists believe also represents a burial pit—but it did not contain any human remains.
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