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Jennifer Nalewicki

1,000-year-old skeleton of noblewoman with hollowed-out skull found buried next to 'husband' in Germany

A skeleton buried in Germany that is missing part of its skull. .

The skeletal remains of a man and a woman buried in Germany caught archaeologists off guard when they discovered that the skull of one of the skeletons was completely hollowed out.

Archaeologists made the unusual finding during ongoing excavations near a 1,000-year-old former royal palace built by Roman Emperor Otto the Great (also known as Otto I) in Helfta, a village in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

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