The Economic Times

Indias lake of horrors? 1200-year-old lake in Uttarakhand has 800 skeletons. Scientists are still figuring out the reason.

Roopkund Lake, nestled in the Himalayas, holds a chilling secret: hundreds of ancient skeletons. Once thought to be victims of a single epidemic or a lost military expedition, recent genetic studies reveal a more complex, centuries-long story. The remains belong to distinct ancestral groups, including those linked to South Asia and Europe, suggesting multiple migration events and deaths over a millennium.