CNN —Archaeologists in France have uncovered nine “astonishing” graves containing the skeletons of 28 horses that were buried about 2,000 years ago, though their precise cause of death remains a mystery.
All these horses were buried at the same time shortly after their deaths, archaeologists said after observing the position of the skeletons and the connections between the bones.
That leaves, archaeologists said, the possibilities that these horses were either killed in battle or as part of a ritual sacrifice.
The horses may have been killed in battle or sacrificed.
If these horses were indeed buried as part of a ritual rather than killed in battle, the sheer number shows the “importance and extent of the sacrifice,” the statement added.
Persons:
Julius Caesar, Gaul
Organizations:
CNN — Archaeologists, French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research, Inrap
Locations:
France, Villedieu