In the Liang Tebo cave on the Indonesian island of Borneo, archaeologists from Griffith University (Australia) delicately discovered a tomb at least 31,000 years old. It’s early 2020, and researchers are returning to this rich area of caves that two years ago was decorated with the oldest known cave paintings, dating back at least 40,000 years and eerily similar to the Lascaux paintings. 20,000 years younger.
At the grave they explain todayNature, the remains of a young man in his twenties. He was buried lying on his back, legs folded, hands at hip level, stones carefully placed in the grave, and a ball of red ocher near or in his mouth. Its skeleton is almost complete (75% of the bones have been found and all the teeth are intact). But the left leg is missing, as well as part of the tibia and fibula; the individual buried there won…
Source: Le Figaro
