January
31
/ 2015
Archaeologists are working in a huge necropolis in Poland where remains of people who lived from about 100 to 400 A.D. are buried. They have found two gigantic tombs that they call “princely graves,” which had, unfortunately, been robbed. They also found warriors’ graves, graves of people foreign to the region and furnaces for cremation. An article in Science & Scholarship in Poland calls the necropolis the largest Roman-era burial site in the Karczyn, Kujawy area. Archaeologists have said it is a unique place and will try to determine the people’s diets, kinship and somewhat about their culture. "It turned out that the necropolis existed continuously for over 300 years, from the first to the fourth century A.D.,” says Adriana
