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It’s not exactly a convenient location to haul bodies to. For example, the lead author in one of the papers reporting this was unable to visit the site personal
by hprotagonist 7y ago
It’s not exactly a convenient location to haul bodies to. For example, the lead author in one of the papers reporting this was unable to visit the site personally; she was kept at base camp with altitude sickness for the duration of the site visit.
Reporting notes that normally when you find a lot of bodies you’ve found a graveyard, but this site seems different enough from normal to warrant a second look.
- saiya-jin 7y agoConvenience might not be the most significant drive - it could have been for example a sacred place (like Muktinath in Nepal located on Annapurna circuit, 3800m high) or any other reason not clear after hundreds of years. Look at India - people go to great lengths to cremate their beloved ones in Varanasi ghats, often travelling > 1000km with corpse (seen it on train from Delhi myself)
- simonh 7y agoIt seems unlikely that a group of Ottomans, and what might be their local guide, would end up being interred at such a place though. Why would they want to be interred at a Tibetan ritual site? Or why would anyone there want to inter them that way, but not anyone else in the last few hundred years? The pattern looks all wrong.
- woah 7y agoHow is the corpse transported? Open air, Sunday best? Or are they hauling around a coffin?
- coldtea 7y agoWeekend at Bernie's style