{"id":239282,"date":"2024-07-03T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/iron-age-skeletons-found-under-bridge-may-have-been-hit-by-a-tsunami\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:15:35","slug":"iron-age-skeletons-found-under-bridge-may-have-been-hit-by-a-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/iron-age-skeletons-found-under-bridge-may-have-been-hit-by-a-tsunami\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Age skeletons found under bridge may have been hit by a tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Skulls found under the Thielle River in Cornaux\/Les Sauges in western Switzerland. Now stored at the Lat\u00e9nium Museum in Hauterive\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/28120623\/SEI_210610149.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2437694\" data-caption=\"Skulls found in the banks of the river Thielle in Cornaux\/Les Sauges in Switzerland are now stored at the Lat\u00e9nium Museum in Hauterive\" data-credit=\"Schweizerischer Nationalfonds\/Fonds national suisse\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Skulls found in the banks of the river Thielle in Cornaux\/Les Sauges in Switzerland are now stored at the Lat\u00e9nium Museum in Hauterive<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Schweizerischer Nationalfonds\/Fonds national suisse<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists have wondered about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/history\/\">history<\/a> of 20 people, as well as a handful of farm animals, who seemingly drowned 2000 years in a Swiss river. One idea is that these individuals were sacrificed from a bridge, which later collapsed. But new evidence supports the notion that, for at least some of them, their demise \u2013 along with the bridge\u2019s \u2013 was due to a natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>In 1965, archaeologists uncovered objects\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2437596-iron-age-skeletons-found-under-bridge-may-have-been-hit-by-a-tsunami\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Skulls found in the banks of the river Thielle in Cornaux\/Les Sauges in Switzerland are now stored at the Lat\u00e9nium Museum in Hauterive Schweizerischer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}