Archaeologists have found more than 100 horsepower skeletons dated the Roman Empire in what today is Stuttar, in Germany
A 1,800 -year -old warship cemetery was discovered, which had the remains of a beloved horse – in the same place, a man was also found considered a “outsider” by Roman society.
A group of archaeologists discovered in Germany a vast Horse Cemetery of Roman times.
The excavation, held in the Bad Cannstatt neighborhood of Stuttar, revealed the remains of More than 100 horses.
According to investigators of the State Monumentosa Preservation Office (LAD) in the Regional Council of Stuttar, these animals were part of a Roman cavalry unit known as wing, during the second century DC.
“Finding a horses of such great horses of Roman times is very rare,” the leader of the investigation told Sarah Roth.
According to the investigators, in, the Roman cavalry unit in Bad Cannstatt patrolled the border of the Roman Empire, approximately between 100 and 150 AD.
The wing probably included about 500 knights and at least 700 horses. When the horses of unity died, the Romans buried us in a specific area that was about 400 meters from the Cavalry Fort and 200 meters from the civil village.
A beloved horse
In the middle of so much horse, there is one that was particularly amado. It was buried with two jars and a small oil lamp nestled in the curve of one of its front paws.
Funeral objects like these are usually found in graves from the Roman era to humans, making the jar and unusual lamp of finding the bones of horses, Roth told Live Science. “Of the about 100 horses we can examine, Only one had received funeral objects“, These.
In addition to the beloved Docalo, another thing that caught the eye was the remains of a Roman Era Man buried with a stoned and without funeral objectsindicating that it was probably a “unimmented outsider.”
“The position [do corpo] It suggests that the man was “discharged” here, instead of receiving a normal burial, as there was a normal cemetery for people just 0.5 km away, “Roth said.
