More than 10,000 ancient tombs, many of which contain amphorae, the remains of children as well as the soldier#39;s attributes, archaeologists have found in the territory of modern 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 along the route of 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 - say in the Italian province of Palermo.
Vassallo said that each burial they managed to find 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. Near some bodies even managed to find metal fragments guns that killed these people, - says the expert.
According to preliminary data, in 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 the 10,000 graves - and this is an approximate figure, since the excavations are still going on, the boundaries of the 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 city 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.
The 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. In 409 BC, Carthage once again sent troops against the Chimera and then there is a Greek colony was destroyed. After that, the colony never existed - he says.
In the tombs, archaeologists also found a lot of children#39;s remains. Infant mortality was very high then, we found a lot of amphorae, which store children#39;s skeletons, - he says.
