Nearly 80 men found shackled in an ancient Athens mass grave were locals, not outsiders
Shackled skeletons, PC: Athens Journal of History, 2021 In 2016, archaeologists digging at the Phaleron cemetery on the coast near Athens uncovered one of the most unsettling finds in Greek archaeology, a mass grave holding nearly 80 adult men, many still shackled at the wrists with iron restraints. The men, known as the Esplanada group,…