ANCIENT GREEK CEMETERY FINDINGS FROM FALIRON FOR THE FIRST TIME

 An exhibit showing some of the most important findings from an excavation of an ancient Greek cemetery in Faliron, south of Athens, opened at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

The excavation revealed an extensive cemetery of 1500 ancient Greek skeletons dating back to the 8th and 5th centuries BC. It also revealed an extraordinary mass grave of 90 skeletons, 32 of which were shackles. 

With wrists still bound by iron shackles, the skeletons were found in the Delta Faliron necropolis. The find was actually a rare and extraordinary one, which was hailed as one of the ten most important archaeological discoveries by the reputed US periodical "Archaeology".