Ancient Viking burial ground discovered in southern Italy

Jul 30, 2018 651

BY: Chris Ciaccia

Archaeologists have found a burial site with 10 skeletons near Palermo, the capital of the Italian island Sicily. The interesting bit? The skeletons are probably the descendants of Vikings.

“Some of the dead buried in the cemetery were undoubtedly members of the elites or the clergy, as the form of some of the graves indicates,” said Sławomir Moździoch, the head of the excavation and an archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, in a statement.

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SOURCE: https://nypost.com

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