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DNA testing has proven that three people who were found in a mass-grave in Russia dating back 800 years ago belonged to an elite family. Reading the words ‘Russia’ and ‘mass-grave’ in the same sentence probably leads you to think of the world-shattering events of July 17, 1918, in Yekaterinburg, when a Bolshevik firing squad executed and buried Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, the couple’s five children, and four attendants, as detailed in this Smithsonian article. But you’d be wrong in this instance. This grave goes back to the time of the Khans. A team of researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology announced the results of their