Topic: 2,500-Year-Old Graveyard Reveals the Burial of 39 Children and Just Two Adults

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2,500-Year-Old Graveyard Reveals the Burial of 39 Children and Just Two Adults
 

<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Archaeologists-at-work_1.jpg?itok=Y2GBKqdB"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Archaeologists-at-work_1.jpg?itok=Y2GBKqdB" width="610" height="341" alt="Archaeologists at work in a large burial field in southeastern Norway, where 40 circular stone formations with cremated bone remains, mostly from children, were found.   Source: Guro Fossum/Museum of Cultural History/ University of Oslo" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>A fairly unsettling discovery has been unearthed out of a recent excavation in Østfold county, Norway - a 2,500-year-old graveyard containing 39 individual burials, exclusively of children under the age of six! An analysis of bone fragments that avoided cremation revealed this rather gruesome fact, along with 2 additional graves containing adult bodies, found apart from the main group. All in all, these were arranged as a cluster of 41 symmetrical stone circles.</p>
<p>The stones in the graves were laid closely together, resembling cobblestones in a street. Several graves featured a large stone at the center, and beneath these stones, archaeologists discovered remains of pottery and burned bones, according to a <a href="https://www.historiskmuseum.no/english/exhibitions/in-memory-of-the-children/" rel="nofollow">statement[/url] by The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo.</p>
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<p align="center"><img alt="Archaeologists at work in a large burial field in southeastern Norway, where 40 circular stone formations with cremated bone remains, mostly from children, were found placed in the middle. (Museum of Cultural History/Science Norway)" class="media-image" height="352" style="width: 610px; height: 352px;" width="610" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Archaeologists-at-work2.jpg?itok=OIKcZf4v" /></p>
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