2,000-year-old remains of a boy with an 'alien' skull.

Archaeologists unearthed the remains of a 1.5-year-old boy with an elongated, deformed skull resembling that of an alien in Crimea.

The remains, with their unusually elongated skulls, belong to a young boy. Photo: archae.ru.

The remains of a young boy, nicknamed "the alien child skeleton," have been found near the village of Yakovenkovo ​​in eastern Crimea, RT reports.

The tomb of a young boy dating back to the 2nd century is a significant discovery in a recent expedition, according to anthropologists. The boy's skull was artificially elongated. The severe deformation of the skull has led to the tomb being dubbed an "alien tomb," according to the Archaeology Fund, an organization specializing in excavations in central Russia, Crimea, and North Africa.

The practice of skull distortion, a form of body modification, was quite common in many ancient cultures. The practice was often performed on infants whose skulls were relatively soft. However, conspiracy theorists still claim that the owners of elongated skulls may have been hybrids of humans and extraterrestrials.

According to archaeological experts, the deformed skulls are a typical characteristic of the Sarmatians who once lived in what is now Crimea. They hypothesize that the Sarmatians used this method to identify members of a group or those with high social status.

The archaeological team also unearthed a ceramic jar and small beads buried with the remains, alongside a bronze bracelet worn on the boy's right hand. Several burial sites dating from the 1st to 3rd centuries and a complex of stone tombs believed to belong to high-ranking members of the ancient Bosporan kingdom, which existed from the 5th to the 7th centuries BC, were also discovered near the boy's tomb.

According to VNE