The bones in Dervenochoria date from the time of the World War II

10/11/2022

The skeleton parts found in a 60-meter-deep cave in the area of Stefani Boiotia, in Dervenochoria, by speleologists on October 27, were not Marios Papageorgiou’s, as various rumors circulated.

From the first anthropological examination carried out at the Medical Forensics Department of the University of Athens by a professor of anthropology, it appears that their age coincides chronologically with the grenade found at the site, which was from the Second World War.

It is an adult man of white race and from the age that the bones show, they date either to the time of the Second World War or the Civil War, maybe even earlier due to the constant temperature and cooling conditions inside the cave, but in no case later.

DNA will be taken for genetic testing based on disappeared persons but the results are now considered unlikely, since if this is the dating, there is no basis from that time and so it is likely that they will remain unidentified.