Ancient Italian necropolis reveals children buried with warrior belts

Ancient Italian necropolis reveals children buried with warrior belts

Unusual burials of children with bronze warrior belts have been discovered in a necropolis near the town of Pontecagnano Faiano, outside Salerno in southwestern Italy. The burials date to the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, when the Samnite people occupied this part of what is now the Campania region of Italy. Located a few miles from the coast along ancient routes connecting the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Apennines, the settlement that would become Pontec…

Children Wearing Bronze 'Warrior' Belts Discovered in 2,500-year-old Italian Necropolis - Herald of Ages

Archaeologists in southern Italy have uncovered the graves of two children who were buried wearing large bronze belts nearly 2,500 years ago.