Czech archaeologists are faced with a mystery in the central Bohemian municipality of Tetin.
During an emergency excavation near St. Catherine's Church there, as Radio Prague reported, they came across several medieval graves with the remains of at least seven people.
Among them was a skull of a 40- to 50-year-old woman who is believed to have come from Africa.
A DNA analysis should now provide information about this, it said.
Why the woman was traveling in Bohemia cannot be said.
"One possibility is that she was a member of a diplomatic mission or a wedding party," says archaeologist Tomas Polisensky.
“Probably that person died on the journey.
This means that their goal may not have been Bohemia or Tetin, but perhaps a European royal court.”
According to Radio Prague, their stay could be related to the fact that Tetin was the seat of the Premyslid princely family in the Middle Ages.
According to Polisensky, however, the woman was not originally buried at the site where she was found, a medieval castle and burial site.
Someone later brought the remains there.