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Owen Jarus

6,300 years ago, dozens of people were murdered in grisly victory celebrations in France

Two excavated pits filled with human skeletons.

In a series of "victory" celebrations more than 6,000 years ago in northeastern France, a group of defenders severed the left arms of their conquered enemies and buried them in pits, archaeologists have found.

The discovery provides a glimpse into a time when warfare was rampant in the region and when invaders pushed into northeastern France from the area around Paris.

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