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A grisly discovery made by the scientists in Kenya may once have been a lagoon, reveals the remains of 27 people, including women and children, that were put to violent deaths more than 10,000 years ago. One of the victims amongst these people was found to have been bound and also appeared to be pregnant. Another body was that of a man who was hit by an arrow to his head but still survived, only to be killed by a crushing blow to the right side of his head. The obsidian arrow, responsible for his death, was still rooted in his skull. Two other men were discovered with stone pellets in their thorax and skull, reported The Huffington Post

The researchers at the Cambridge University, who found this gruesome scene that it was not a burial site. They also added that the bodies that were preserved in this lagoon were not buried at all. What they discovered in Nataturk, close to Lake Turkana, was the oldest massacre site ever discovered, revealed the latest study published in the journal Nature

The event is supposedly dated between 9,500 to 10,500 years ago. The researchers from Cambridge University's Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES), who uncovered the scene, say that this is the earliest known example of a historical conflict.

"These human remains record the intentional killing of a small band of foragers with no deliberate burial, and provide unique evidence that warfare was part of the repertoire of inter-group relations among some prehistoric hunter-gatherers," study leader Marta Mirazón Lahr of Cambridge said in a news release.

Another site where the remains of victims suffering violent deaths was discovered in Sudan and are believed to be of the similar age. However, the bones have never been dated, said the news release, as reported by Huffington Post