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Owen Jarus

1,000-year-old burials of 'first Christians' in Poland discovered near medieval settlement

A close-up of a skeleton's skull.

Archaeologists have uncovered part of a cemetery, including 1,000-year-old human skeletons, near the remains of a fortified medieval settlement in the village of Borkowo in Poland.

The finds date to a time when many people were converting from paganism to Christianity in Poland. "We view these people as representatives of the 'first Christians' in these lands," Justyna Marchewka-Długońska, a researcher at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and a member of the research team, told Live Science in an email.

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