Summary:
Roopkund LakeThe mystery first emerged during the early 20th century when an English man discovered the Roopkund Lake full of skeletons. Genetic Structure of the Skeletons of Roopkund LakeLocal folklore describes a pilgrimage to the nearby shrine of the mountain goddess, Nanda Devi. “Our genomic study conducted on 72 bone samples of more than 500 skeletal remains at Roopkund Lake says something otherwise, the prevalence of two clusters, which we classified chronologically,” said Dr Thangaraj. The study unfolds another Riddle which is to be resolved by the Anthropologists and Historians as the site contains genitally highly distinct groups. The first incident might have taken place in the 7th century, “as suggests the carbon dating of the skeletal remains, to conclude which the experiment was conducted in a German lab,” said CCMB Director Rakesh Mishra..