shackled skeletons
Ancient Greece
Greece Plans Museum for Ancient Shackled Skeletons of Athens
Greece's culture minister announced on Tuesday the building of a museum at Faliro, south of Athens that will exhibit a group of 78 shackled skeletons, believed to have been executed in the 7th century BC.
These remains, known as "Desmotes...
Ancient Greece
Ancient Mass Grave Museum in Greece at Risk as Grant is Canceled
A planned ancient mass grave museum in Faliro, Greece is at risk after a major grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) was canceled due to delays in construction.
The museum was to protect and display eighty skeletons discovered in...
Ancient Greece
Shackled Skeletons from Ancient Greece to Get Underground Display
Greece's Central Archaeological Council (KAS) on Tuesday announced that they have decided to construct an underground "shell" which will permanently protect and display the 80 skeletons discovered in 2016 in a mass grave in an ancient Greek cemetery, south...
Ancient Greece
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens to Decode One Thousand 2500-Year-Old Skeletons
Archaeologists and scientists of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens are to study 1,070 skeletons found at Faliro, dating from around 2500 BC.
The skeletons -- that archaeologists believe belong to captives or slaves since they were...