At least 80 skeletons lie in a mass grave in an ancient Greek cemetery, their wrists clamped by iron shackles. Skeletal remains, with iron shackles on their wrists, are laid in a row at the ancient Falyron Delta cemetery - ReutersCoup PlotThe cemetery dates from between the 8th and 5th century BC. They were found earlier in 2016 in part of the Falyron Delta necropolis - a large ancient cemetery unearthed during the construction of a national opera house and library between downtown Athens and the port of Piraeus. "A cemetery is a first and last photograph in antiquity of those people that pass from life to death," she said. High-rise apartments dot the skyline to the north while a noisy motorway snakes by the site's east side.

Source: dna August 01, 2016 12:21 UTC