FORGOTTEN NECROPOLIS
Regional.
An unknown civilization around four lakes that lasted from 6000 BC to 60 BC has been uncovered in two important excavations of a Neolithic and an Iron Age settlement in the Amyntaio district of Lerin, Aegean Macedonia.
A 7,300-year-old home with a timber floor, remnants of food supplies and blackberry seeds are among the findings in a Neolithic settlement near the lakes of Vegoritis, Petres, Heimatitida and Zazari. Garments, women’s fashions and burial customs in northern Eordaia 3,000 years ago are coming to light among the hundreds of funeral offerings in a forgotten necropolis dating from the Iron Age in Aegean Macedonia.
More than 100 years after the excavation at Aghios Pandeleimonas in Amyntaio in the Florina prefecture – known in the bibliography as the Pateli Necropolis – by the Russian Archaeological Institute of Istanbul, a systematic investigation of 12 tombs by the 17th Antiquities Ephorate has found a total of 358 tombs dating from between 950 BC and 550 BC. Although the first discovery in 1898 of 376 graves produced many findings, now in the Istanbul Museum, the necropolis between the lakes of Heimatitida and Petres has revealed.
MD: The interesting thing is that pieces of jewelry, hairdressing and beauty aids in nearly all the women’s graves as well as those of little girls were found. But, too bad it’s Greek now…
[Ekathimerini.com]
What exactly do you mean by saying "Too bad it's Greek now"?
Posted by
Anonymous |
13:59
too bad, because we don't have acces to our historical sites anymore.
Posted by
Macedonia Daily |
17:05
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