March
16
/ 2025
Several years ago, archaeologists in China discovered something shocking near the northern fortifications of the Great Wall. They unearthed the jumbled skeletal remains of at least 17 individuals who had been murdered in the most grotesque way conceivable. From the condition of the skeletons it was clear the victims had been severely beaten and then dismembered and decapitated either before or after death, in a massacre that defies description in its level of brutality. Ending nearly two decades of uncertainty, scientists have now identified the massacre victims as soldiers from the army of China’s legendary Han Dynasty, who were apparently murdered by Mongolian steppe warriors who were the ancestors of the Huns. The massacre had been dated to between the
