Roopkund Lake and Surrounding Mountains (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Roopkund Lake and Surrounding Mountains

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The lake was thought to be the site of an ancient catastrophic event that left several hundred people dead, but the first ancient whole genome data from India shows that diverse groups of people died at the lake in multiple events approximately 1000 years apart.

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Atish Waghwase

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