Mystery of the 13 skeletons found sitting up in ancient graves – and their grisly demise

One of the seated skeletons in the burial site in Dijon. Several showed signs of violence and all are likely to have been men aged between 40 and 60 (Picture: Hervé Laganier/Inrap/Cover Media)

Archaeologists have uncovered 13 skeletons sitting upright in an ancient burial ground in France.

The site is in the former garden of the Cordeliers convent in Dijon and is believed to date from the second Iron Age (400BC to 100BC).

Horrifyingly, investigators also identified a Gallo-Roman necropolis from the 1st Century AD...