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August 5, 2025
Archaeologists created 3D reconstructions of the women’s faces based on an analysis of their teeth and bones. Found in the Czech Republic, the siblings “did not have an easy life,” the new research suggests.
Roughly 6,000 years ago, two sisters worked in a mine in what is now the Czech Republic. Day after day, they extracted heavy rocks from the ground—even when they were injured. Eventually, after they died from unknown causes, they were buried on top of each other in the mine shaft.
This is the scenario archaeologists have described after studying the women’s remains. They report their findings—and share a reconstruction of what their faces might have looked like—in a recent paper published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.