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Archaeologists unearthed an extensive animal burial ground at the 2,000-year-old port of Berenice on the Red Sea coast of Egypt a decade ago. Now they say that the evidence found in almost 600 animal graves suggests this could be the world’s oldest pet cemetery. The site was first discovered by archaeozoologist Marta Osypinska and her colleagues at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2011. It’s located just outside the city walls of Berenice (also spelled Berenike.) It was under a Roman trash dump and the researchers write in their new paper published in World Archaeology that “The ‘pet cemetery’ at the port functioned from the mid-1st to mid-2nd century AD.” [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"83904","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"660","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Manner of placement of the body of a dog