Shivering 250 unexpectedly visible remains in the storm

The beach on the largest island in the Orkney Islands, north of Scotland, suddenly remains after a series of big storms: they are Vikings or ancient Pict.

According to local officials, many volunteers are urgently using sand and clay bags to protect the remains, limiting damage to the cemetery that is up to 1,500 years old.

The team from the Orkney Center for Archeology Research (ORCA) at the Institute of Archeology - Highlands and Islands University (Scotland, UK) leans in on the theory that they were Vikings who once dominated the island in the 10th century. 6.

The beautiful coast has turned into a creepy place after the storm, with about 250 sets of corpses suddenly appearing - (photo: ORCA).

This cemetery had been buried for a long time and no one knew it before, until recent storms destroyed the beautiful beach, turning it into a creepy area of ​​remains. The storm eroded a low cliff where the cemetery was located, giving fierce waves an opportunity to invade and leaving the dead to reappear after 15 centuries of rest. According to statistics, there are about 250 sets of remains in this cemetery.

"Storms with a bit of southeast wind will invade, actively erode what is just soft sandstone," said archaeologist Peter Higgins from ORCA.

The mysterious hieroglyphs on the stone found in the middle of the cemetery - (photo: ORCA).

Now, local residents and authorities are very worried about how to preserve the remains of the cemetery, once nature will certainly continue to make the sandstone part of the cemetery located eroded.

Reinforcing the theory that they were Vikings, or the Pict , is still a difficult puzzle to solve, because researchers did not find any clothing or burial remains left in the broken cemetery. cancel this. However, the clue may come from a hieroglyphic stone, suggesting it may be the remains of a Christian chapel. But these remains can also come from many different eras.

In the near future, scientists will analyze genetic material from these ancient skeletons as well as a mysterious stone to solve the riddle of ancestors who have just returned to the coast to rewrite more accurately. Orkney's long history.

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