ANDRZEJ KRAUZE
Archaeologists working in Poland in 2010 unearthed the remains of two females mysteriously buried among monks in the medieval Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec on the outskirts of Krakow. The team extracted DNA from a tooth of one woman and estimated that its owner had died sometime between the 12th and 14th centuries and likely had brown eyes and dark hair.
The following year, the same lead archaeologist, Jagiellonian University professor Henryk Głąb, excavated another pair of skeletons—these were male—buried in the Church of St. Andrew in Krakow, aged 60 and 75 at the time of their deaths in the 14th century. They were suspected to have been Polish magnates, or members of the nobility, the younger man with blue eyes and the older with blue ...
