Russian archaeologists have unearthed a skeleton with a strange elongated “alien-like” skull at Arkaim, near the present-day city of Chelyabinsk in the Southern Urals steppe of central Russia.

The Arkaim site is often referred to as “Russia’s Stonehenge.”

Although scholars said that the weird elongation of the skull was due to the ancient tradition of binding juvenile skulls with ropes to reshape them, UFO and alien enthusiasts have declared unanimously, after photos of the weird looking skull were posted online, that it belonged to a member of an alien race that visited and lived on Earth in ancient times.

While some UFO and alien enthusiasts argued that the “cone-shaped” skull is proof of humanoid extraterrestrials that lived on Earth in ancient times, others speculated that the ancient tribe reshaped skulls to mimic the appearance of aliens who had visited them in the past.

Many UFO enthusiasts noted that the high forehead of the skull is similar to that of an alien race known as the “Greys.”

In alien lore, alien Greys are an ET race with high forehead, large round eyes, spindly limbs, and grey skin. Their ascribed physical features match the stereotypical appearance of aliens in popular culture, including sci-fi movies.

However, scholars believe that the skeletal remains belonged to a woman of the Sarmati tribe that lived in the region — an area covering present-day Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and southern Russia — about 2,000 years ago. According to scholars, although the skeletal remains date back to about the second century A.D., or probably a little earlier, the site where the remains were found date back 4,000 years.

While some scholars believe that the site was first built around the 20th century B.C., others date it to about the 17th century B.C.

The strange elongation of the skull, according to scholars, was due to a tribal practice which involves binding the soft and pliable skulls of infants with ropes to reshape them. The elongated skull that results was probably considered to be a thing of beauty among the various tribes that practiced binding in ancient times.

The Arkaim site, first discovered in 1987, has yielded several valuable artifacts of the Bronze Age.

The site is often described as Russia’s Stonehenge, after Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, believed to have been built about 5,000 years ago.

Some scholars speculate that both sites served as primitive astronomical observatories. The Russian historian, KK Bystrushkin, first proposed in 2003 the controversial theory that Arkaim, like Stonehenge, was used by the ancient tribe to map the skies and study the stars.

However, the theory is disputed by some scholars.

But those scholars who accept the theory believe that the astronomy culture of Arkaim was more advanced than Stonehenge’s. According to theorists, the composition of the structures at Arkaim allowed the users to map the skies in greater detail than the builders of Stonehenge.

Bystrushkin suggested that the builders of Stonehenge might have been able to achieve astronomical observation accuracy of about 10 arcminutes, while Arkaim astronomers were able to achieve an accuracy of one arcminute.

The Arkaim settlement included a village covering an area of about 220,000 square feet (20,000 square meters). It had a central square, and two rings of houses on a street. The entire settlement was surrounded by two concentric, circular stone walls.

The video above shows the Russian archaeologists unearthing the strange-shaped skull. They seemed to find the shape of the skull amusing as they can be heard laughing while unearthing the skull.

Arkaim: Aerial View

Researcher Maria Makurova confirmed to the Russian news agency, TASS, that her team found a “well-preserved skeleton” that probably belonged to a woman of the Sarmati tribe.

An Artist's Reconstruction Of Arkaim

“We have found a well-preserved skeleton. I would not exclude the possibility that the skeleton belongs to a woman from the Sarmati tribe that lived in the territories of what is now modern day Ukraine, Kazakhstan and southern Russia. Her skull was elongated because the tribe did so by tying up the heads of their children with rope. It was clearly a tradition in the tribe.”

According to the Daily Mail, Maruka declined to comment on the claim by UFO enthusiasts that the skull belonged to an alien race that visited Earth in ancient times. However, she said her team was researching on why the tribe reshaped skulls.

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