FLORENCE, ITALY – Dozens of skeletons was found under the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. According to archaeologists, it was found a medieval mass grave near the renowned museum.
Exposed during work to build an elevator in an area designed to house an expanded section of the Uffizi’s exhibit space, the skeletons belong to more than 60 individuals of various ages and genders who probably succumbed to a devastating epidemic.
The anthropological, palynological, palaeobotanical investigations undertaken with the discovery of the necropolis will be able to shed some light on the real causes of death of these men and on the environmental and social aspects of this large sample of population.
The location of the cemetery on a pad near the river and the location, sometimes broken, the buried side by side deposited head-feet, are clear indications of burials made in haste probably coinciding with the onset of an epidemic.
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