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BERLIN– Nearly 4 lots skeletons recuperated from a deep well in the Croatian city of Osijek might be the remains of individuals who died throughout the historical Plague of Cyprian that damaged the Roman Empire in the mid-third century A.D.

“We have a whole bunch of these used Roman-period wells that were dug in antiquity,” Mario Novaka bioarchaeologist at the Institute for Archaeological Research in Zagreb, informed Live Science. “They basically used these dried-up wells just to throw people in — either from battle or from epidemics.”

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