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Two mysterious skeleton in Troy

Truva’da iki gizemli iskelet

BURAK GEZEN, ERSAN KÜÇÜKKURU Çanakkale DHA

updated time 22.9.2009

Excavations in the ancient city of Troy in Çanakkale , with two human skeletons shed light on the Trojan War.

In the emerged down the city's defensive moat, a womand and a male skeleton were thought to be the victims of the Trojan War.

The excavation team , in the defensive ditch of the city of Troy down to determine the continuation of the southern entrance encountered a new finding. Vice president of the excavation Team, Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Arts and Archaeology Department, Assoc . Dr. Rustem Aslan announced that they had found the skeleton of a man and a woman with the newborn child or a buried nine months pregnant just above the lion moat.

Aslan, "Important which, for the period that coincides with the Trojan War. Buried in rush without care inside the trenches are shown. Bone analysis and continues datings," he said. Aslan also indicated that A skeleton belonging to the same period were found in the excavations of in Korfmann period , next to the castle. "But this is one of the first to have both buried at the bottom of the ditch defense and outside the castle. Our excavations around down town will continue" he said.

"This is a cemetery or whether they are victims of the war ?, We can say more clearly", "he said.


[Translated by Kagan Agun],

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