Ancient Bulgarian Skeleton Shows Man Survived a Lion Attack, Researchers Say

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered the remains of a young man from the Copper Age who survived being attacked by a lion about 6,000 years ago.

According to a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the skeleton was found in a necropolis near Kozareva Mogila. For as cool as the word is, a necropolis is basically just a cemetery, but with elaborate tomb monuments all over the place.

The remains belonged to an 18- to 25-year-old whose bones painted the gnarly picture of a man who really should have died, after the lion had mangled his limbs and punctured his skull. Researchers compared the wounds to the arcs left by various carnivores and concluded they matched those of a lion in Bulgaria.

This Ancient Bulgarian Man Survived Being Mauled by a Lion. Somehow