US EditionBlue-eyed 'Ice Prince' toddler was buried with a sword and a piglet 1,350 years ago in Bavaria
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When a tomb sealed for more than thirteen centuries resurfaces, it shakes our understanding of the social and funerary practices of the High Middle Ages. This is precisely what the discovery made in 2021 by the Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (BLfD) in Bavaria during preventive excavations in Mattsies allowed. Thanks to an unprecedented cryoconservation technique, archaeologists were able to extract in its entirety the burial of an 18-mo…
Blue-eyed Bavarian toddler buried with sword, silk robe, and piglet
A blue-eyed Bavarian toddler buried 1,350 years ago was found with silk robes, a sword, silver ornaments, and a piglet. Dubbed the “Ice Prince”, the child was interred in a Roman-era villa. The wealth of grave goods and preservation of the tomb reveal rare insights into aristocratic life and early Christian burial rites in early medieval Bavaria.
Researchers have investigated the bones of a toddler from the Allgäu, who was buried in a spectacular tomb together with weapons and jewellery in the Middle Ages. They have now clarified the death circumstances of the boy and some secrets of his short life. According to this, the boy known as "ice prince of Mattsies" came from a wealthy family and died in the [...] Der Beitrag Cause of death of the Bavarian "ice prince" revealed first appeared o…
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