Medieval Graves Disturbed For Surprising Reasons?

Posted by admin on Nov 2, 2011

Once laid to rest, the remains of many who died in medieval Europe were not left in peace. As much as 40 percent of graves from the mid-fifth to mid-eighth centuries appear to have been disturbed after burial.

Grave robbers, searching for wealth buried along with the dead, have frequently born the blame from archaeologists. “This sort of behavior has always been described as grave robbery,” said Edeltraud Aspöck, a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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