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Road crews in Poland stumbled upon a lost 16th-century cemetery, in which the vast majority of graves belong to children. Incredibly, some of the skeletons still have coins in their mouths, a tradition that dates back to ancient times.

The cemetery was discovered in a wooded area currently being cleared for Poland’s S19 motorway, which is part of the Via Carpathia road project to establish a north-south corridor running all the way from Greece to Lithuania.

A team from Arkadia Firma Archeologiczna (Arkadia Archaeological Company) was called in after construction crews stumbled upon human remains, reports The First News. The cemetery, which dates back to the late 16th and early 17 centuries, is located near the village of Jeżowe in southeast Poland.

Of the 115 individuals found at the site, around 70% to 80% were children, according to Poland’s General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways. The discovery corroborates both written accounts and local legends describing a cemetery dating back to this time period.

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The bodies were carefully buried in sandy ground and oriented along an east-west axis. The dead were laid down on their backs with their hands positioned at their sides. Some skeletons were found to have coins inserted into their mouths.

“It’s certainly a sign of their beliefs,” Arkadia archaeologist Katarzyna Oleszek told The First News. “The coins are called obols of the dead or Charon’s obol. It is an old, pre-Christian tradition. But it’s been cultivated for a long time, even as late as the 19th century, it was practised by Pope Pius IX.”

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This death ritual, which dates back to ancient Greece and Rome, represents a payment or bribe to Charon, the ferryman who delivers souls from the world of the living to the world of the dead.

The presence of these coins is certainly interesting from an anthropological perspective, but coins can also be used by archaeologists to timestamp a site. In this case, the coins were minted during the reign of Sigismund III Vasa, a Polish king who ruled from 1587 to 1632. Coins called boratynki were also found, which are associated with John II Casimir Vasa, who ruled from 1648 to 1668.

One of the more intriguing graves contains four children laid side-by-side with their heads all oriented in the same position, but with their legs and feet all meeting together. The leftmost child in the grave appears to have died at a very young age. It’s possible that these four individuals are closely related – perhaps siblings.

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Source: https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/06/16th-century-child-skeletons-with-coins-in-their-mouths-found-at-construction-site-in-poland/

O buru taa ka obido...

Dust to dust

E be things oo, let’s just say the coins na pocket money for after life,
You pay the ferryman on your way to the afterlife collect your change buy gala and lacasera to enjoy the journey

Wowowww

allow her to rest in peace na

Cha E

@ Op, Indeed, the best secrets are the most twisted.....

Macsjebs:
Source: https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/06/16th-century-child-skeletons-with-coins-in-their-mouths-found-at-construction-site-in-poland/

They may be dwarves

My people used them for money rituals

Holy moly

DenreleDave:
Wowowww

Are you an ambulance?

IfGodbeforus:
So many Mysteries in the world are being unraveled in these times.
The End is truly at Hand.

But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel 12:4

OLODO. WHAT IS MYSTERIOUS IN THAT

On no account will those children not be blacks.
Connected to slave trade.

:owetin virus no go see inside corona,,,I open cap for una o

What's the value of those coins

Wonderful!!!!!!


We need more of this kind of discovery to make our world a better place!!

Interesting.

wow, but whats the whole idea of coins been found in their mouths?

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save me from its guilt and power.

Not the labor of my hands
Can fulfill Thy law’s demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All could never sin erase,
Thou must save, and save by grace.

Nothing in my hands I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling;
Naked, come to Thee for dress,
Helpless, look to Thee for grace:
Foul, I to the fountain fly,
Wash me, Savior, or I die.

While I draw this fleeting breath,
When mine eyes shall close in death,
When I soar to worlds unknown,
See Thee on Thy judgment throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee