In Sicily, discovered the largest ancient necropolis
Over 10,000 ancient tombs, many of which contain amphorae, the remains of the children, as well as the soldier's attributes, archaeologists have found in modern-day Italy in Sicily . Scientists say they found burial refers to the time when Sicily was still a Greek colony. According to Stefano Sassalo, head of archaeological excavations in Sicily, most likely, now experts have found the largest necropolis in the history of ancient Greece.
Local experts say that the tomb was found recently, when builders were engaged in laying a new line of commuter trains and the necropolis is actually located on the route the railway. "Not far from this area were previously found ancient buildings that archaeologists have studied, so we assumed that somewhere there had to be a burial of people," - said the Italian province of Palermo. Vassallo said that each burial they were able to detect 15 to 25 of the remains.
"For the most part, these were the remains of young women, many of them contain traces of injuries and damage to the skeleton and skull. Next to some bodies even managed to find metal fragments guns that killed these people," - said the expert. According to preliminary data, Sicily was found exactly burial, which describes the ancient Greek historian Herodotus - in the year 480 BC, the Greeks lost weight during the battle with the Carthaginians. Italian archaeologists say 10,000 graves - and this is an approximate figure, since the excavations are still ongoing, border necropolis archaeologists have not been found, so the number of mass graves can grow.
Stefano Vassallo said that next to the necropolis of more than 2500 years ago, was located a small Greek town of Chimera, founded in 648 BC. Chimera was actually trading colony of ancient Greece, the city was located on the northern coast of Sicily. In 480 BC Carthage (now Tunisia) sent an army across the sea to fight the Greek colony. "Greeks and the Carthaginians a bloody battle at the foot of the Chimera, but here people and buried. then Chimera came out victorious from the battle.
409 AD to BC Carthage again sent troops against the Chimera and then there is a Greek colony was destroyed. Thereafter, the colony never existed "- he says. burials in mass archaeologists also found the remains of children. "Infant mortality was very high then we nashil many amphorae, which store children's skeletons," - he said.
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