A 6,200-year-old Bulgarian teenager survived a brutal lion attack that left deep puncture wounds in his skull but died months later from his injuries! 🦁💀
Archaeozoologist Nadezhda Karastoyanova from Bulgaria’s National Museum of Natural History analyzed the 16-18-year-old’s remains from Kozareva Mogila settlement in eastern Bulgaria, finding a specific pattern of puncture and compressive injuries incompatible with weapons or postmortem damage. By comparing tooth imprints from museum lion and bear skulls using special molding processes, researchers confirmed a Panthera leo lion knocked the teenager down before biting his head multiple times during the Copper Age (4500-3500 BC), when lions roamed Eastern Europe.
Clear healing signs suggest the community provided medical care for two to three months after the attack, extraordinary given prehistoric lion attack evidence is extremely rare. One wound likely damaged his meninges, the brain-lining membranes, leaving his brain integrity questionable, while deep leg and left arm wounds possibly damaged muscles and tendons. Previous discoveries show Kozareva Mogila inhabitants treated diseases and performed skull surgeries, indicating medical knowledge that may have helped him survive initially.
The teenager was buried in a crouched position with hands before his face, standing 5 feet 9 inches tall, with no grave goods and unusually deep burial suggesting low social status and community fear. He likely retained severe scars changing his appearance, needed support for everyday movements preventing physical labor like farming, and suffered severely impaired neurological functions.
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Zlatehagoat on
So he didn’t survive…
Dan4o_Veliki on
Weakest Bulgarian 💪💪
DangerousDisplay7664 on
Why is this breaking news?!
lesimgurian on
**Breaking News** something happened 6,200 years ago…. 😅
Yoshiprimez on
What a noob, who dies from a crushed skull from a Lion bite.
jalanajak on
“A 6,200-year old Bulgarian teenager”
So, a 6194-grader?
HangryWolf on
You mean he suffered for 3 months after being attacked by a lion before succumbing to his wounds.
yoelamigo on
Rip in the chat guys😞🥀
Full_Rice0242 on
Bulgarian? I thought Slavs were relatively late comers in that region?
HumongousFungihihi on
Today, on things that could have happened 6,000 years ago. the probability is actually quite high that someone survived such an event for some time, especially since lion attacks were far more frequent than today and, statistically, even if only one out of a hundred victims survived, survival would still be expected to occur.
MaterialWitness1009 on
Than by definition they in fact did NOT survive a lion attack… This is just simple math here kids. It should have said they didn’t die immediately…. Which is much less impressive right.
Awkward-Inspector-38 on
same as people in WWII mostly died from infections, not from bullets.
daskunkbby on
So he had Covid
BirbDaBoi on
Breaking olds
Clinday on
That was just a 3 months agony with extra steps.
noobcastle on
Looks dead to me.
Lunar_mirror4 on
Honestly, back then im sure they werent even mad. Imagine surviving a lion bite to the head these days with medical technology as it is today, let alone back then. They were probably revered as a miracle and some kind of sign of divine intervention of whatever gods they worshipped. Living an extra day after that would be a blessing im sure
But also, how the fuck do we even know this? You’re telling me carbon dating or whatever technology is used nowadays can take a skull from over 6000 years ago and differentiate between the damage being caused, then somehow tell us that they died 3 months later? Very skeptical. Sounds a bit farfetched honestly. Smells of hardcore clickbait that clearly worked on me
Metonio on
Probably the bulgarian nurses just injected him with hiv lmao
AnimalOfTheState on
He died just after the COVID jab. Wake up sheeple
AGrandNewAdventure on
What’s more interesting is the level of care provided 6,200 years ago to keep someone alive that long with that amount of trauma.
ThiefPriest on
And I’m just hearing about this now?
RefrigeratorLow195 on
N7LP400 on
“3 month recovery” more like agony
Yetyhunter on
There were lions in Bulgaria?
Longjumping-Rice-935 on
this feels so ai generated
petersengupta on
… so he didn’t recover.
BotoHunter on
Debatable.
South_Buy_3175 on
‘Survived’ but died 3 months later.
More of a delayed death rather than surviving it
binokyo10 on
How they know it’s a lion though?
Optimal-Actuary7201 on
So he disnt survive
Admirable-Crazy-3457 on
He didn’t survive, just took more time to die
MixAndMatch333 on
Wasn’t really recovering if they died, no? Recovering leads to recovery, this one lead to death yo
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A 6,200-year-old Bulgarian teenager survived a brutal lion attack that left deep puncture wounds in his skull but died months later from his injuries! 🦁💀
Archaeozoologist Nadezhda Karastoyanova from Bulgaria’s National Museum of Natural History analyzed the 16-18-year-old’s remains from Kozareva Mogila settlement in eastern Bulgaria, finding a specific pattern of puncture and compressive injuries incompatible with weapons or postmortem damage. By comparing tooth imprints from museum lion and bear skulls using special molding processes, researchers confirmed a Panthera leo lion knocked the teenager down before biting his head multiple times during the Copper Age (4500-3500 BC), when lions roamed Eastern Europe.
Clear healing signs suggest the community provided medical care for two to three months after the attack, extraordinary given prehistoric lion attack evidence is extremely rare. One wound likely damaged his meninges, the brain-lining membranes, leaving his brain integrity questionable, while deep leg and left arm wounds possibly damaged muscles and tendons. Previous discoveries show Kozareva Mogila inhabitants treated diseases and performed skull surgeries, indicating medical knowledge that may have helped him survive initially.
The teenager was buried in a crouched position with hands before his face, standing 5 feet 9 inches tall, with no grave goods and unusually deep burial suggesting low social status and community fear. He likely retained severe scars changing his appearance, needed support for everyday movements preventing physical labor like farming, and suffered severely impaired neurological functions.
🏺⚕️
So he didn’t survive…
Weakest Bulgarian 💪💪
Why is this breaking news?!
**Breaking News** something happened 6,200 years ago…. 😅
What a noob, who dies from a crushed skull from a Lion bite.
“A 6,200-year old Bulgarian teenager”
So, a 6194-grader?
You mean he suffered for 3 months after being attacked by a lion before succumbing to his wounds.
Rip in the chat guys😞🥀
Bulgarian? I thought Slavs were relatively late comers in that region?
Today, on things that could have happened 6,000 years ago. the probability is actually quite high that someone survived such an event for some time, especially since lion attacks were far more frequent than today and, statistically, even if only one out of a hundred victims survived, survival would still be expected to occur.
Than by definition they in fact did NOT survive a lion attack… This is just simple math here kids. It should have said they didn’t die immediately…. Which is much less impressive right.
same as people in WWII mostly died from infections, not from bullets.
So he had Covid
Breaking olds
That was just a 3 months agony with extra steps.
Looks dead to me.
Honestly, back then im sure they werent even mad. Imagine surviving a lion bite to the head these days with medical technology as it is today, let alone back then. They were probably revered as a miracle and some kind of sign of divine intervention of whatever gods they worshipped. Living an extra day after that would be a blessing im sure
But also, how the fuck do we even know this? You’re telling me carbon dating or whatever technology is used nowadays can take a skull from over 6000 years ago and differentiate between the damage being caused, then somehow tell us that they died 3 months later? Very skeptical. Sounds a bit farfetched honestly. Smells of hardcore clickbait that clearly worked on me
Probably the bulgarian nurses just injected him with hiv lmao
He died just after the COVID jab. Wake up sheeple
What’s more interesting is the level of care provided 6,200 years ago to keep someone alive that long with that amount of trauma.
And I’m just hearing about this now?
“3 month recovery” more like agony
There were lions in Bulgaria?
this feels so ai generated
… so he didn’t recover.
Debatable.
‘Survived’ but died 3 months later.
More of a delayed death rather than surviving it
How they know it’s a lion though?
So he disnt survive
He didn’t survive, just took more time to die
Wasn’t really recovering if they died, no? Recovering leads to recovery, this one lead to death yo
so he died from a lion bite…
TIL lions used to roam Eastern Europe