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| Tango01 | 27 May 2017 3:45 p.m. PST |
"Excavations in Jaffa have uncovered the disarticulated remains of about 40 bodies in two mass graves dating to the late 18th century. The bodies could be of Ottoman soldiers massacred by French troops in 1799. Or, they could be the victims of epidemics that swept through Palestine at the time, who were disinterred by Turkish builders erecting new walls after Napoleon gave up and withdrew from the city.
"The grave has a fairly even division of men, women and children, from infancy to post-60 years old, which is what you would find civilian cemeteries of the time," Dr. Yoav Arbel, directing the dig for the Israel Antiquities Authority, told Haaretz.
The main cache of bones was found during a salvage excavation in the Kishle, the Ottoman police compound in Jaffa. A second concentration was uncovered near an 18th century fortification unearthed at the southern end of Roslan Street, right by the Mediterranean Sea. The wall, 1.30 meters thick, was built over foundation arches, a hallmark of large-scale Ottoman construction in Jaffa in from the late 18th to early 20th centuries…"
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