April
06
/ 2021
Recently, two amazing discoveries were made in the commune of Epagny Metz-Tessy, in the Haute-Savoie department in southeastern France, near Annecy. After an SNC group carried out routine inspections and excavations prior to giving the all-clear on new housing construction on the site, they stumbled upon two Roman funeral pyres from the 1 st century AD. The burial artifacts included a stunning Roman military ruler’s curule chair and furniture associated with the upper classes. The remarkable curule chair was a rare find among a wider range of high-class burial artifacts. Clearly these funeral pyres were perfect examples of Roman burial rituals 2000 years ago. And from the evidence found one can immediately understand that the Romans buried their dead with
