April
12
/ 2021
French archaeologists digging in the commune of Île-Rousse on the Mediterranean island of Corsica have unearthed more than 40 tombs that have been dated to the mid-first millennium AD. The skeletal remains of these individuals were interred in an ancient Corsica necropolis located right behind the town’s parish church. The exploratory excavations that led to the discovery of the Corsica necropolis were made in anticipation of an upcoming construction project. Personnel from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) were dispatched to the small village to search for evidence of past human activity, in areas that will be rendered inaccessible in the near future. Previous archaeological discoveries in the area around Île-Rousse have been sparse, so expectations for
