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Inside Europe's largest Copper Age tomb, children's bones expose an ancient health crisis hidden for 5,000 years
- May 30, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Nearly 5,000 years ago, respiratory infections, possibly including tuberculosis, were ravaging the children buried at Camino del Molino (CMOL), Spain. The massive circular burial cave carved into rock is Europe's largest Copper Age mass burial, containing over 1,300 individuals, and has been the subject of years of excavation and analysis.
Originally published at Phys.org