More Reporting on Archaeology“I call Ponar ground zero for the Holocaust,” Dr. Freund said. Dr. Freund and his team used the information from survivors’ accounts to search for the tunnel. Rather then excavate and disturb the remains, he and his team used two noninvasive tools — electrical resistivity tomography and ground penetrating radar. PhotoA team of archaeologists and mapmakers say they have uncovered a forgotten tunnel that 80 Jews dug largely by hand as they tried to escape from a Nazi extermination site in Lithuania about 70 years ago. The new finding traces the tunnel from entrance to exit and provides evidence to support survivor accounts of the harrowing effort to escape the holding pit.

Source: New York Times June 29, 2016 05:48 UTC