Today we are going to ancient Greece to show you a very dark discovery. We are located in Fáliro Bay, south of Athens. In the excavations prior to the construction of a cultural center, a mass grave with eighty bodies came to light, just two and a half meters deep. These are young individuals, with a strong build and without apparent bone wounds. The dating places them between 650 and 625 BC.
From a drone view, the skeletons appear to be performing a grotesque dance.
But if we get closer we can see that the 80 bodies have their hands chained above their heads and their jaws extremely open. In addition, one of the individuals had an arrow embedded in one shoulder and another had his feet tied, something that for the responsible archaeologist, Stella Chrysoulaki, points to a possible capture.
It still cannot be confirmed with certainty but there is a hypothesis that is gaining strength.
In the year 632 B.C. The Athenian noble Cylon orchestrated a coup d’état and his military uprising was put down by the Athenians. The conspirators took refuge in the Acropolis where they were surrounded and later massacred. Cylon, however, managed to escape.
(The images, provided by the Greek Ministry of Culture to National Geographic)