Cyprus' top antiquities official reported that archaeologists had discovered a 16-foot water well more than 10,500 years old, which contained a skeleton of a young woman at the bottom.

Pavlos Flourentzos said scientists had unearthed the well last month at a construction site in the village of Kissonerga.

Once the well had dried up, it was seemingly used for trash, Flourentzos told the Associated Press.

In addition to the poorly preserved female skeleton, the well was also found to contain worked flints, animal bone fragments, stone beads and pendants from the early Neolithic period.