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Tango01  | 17 Nov 2025 12:53 p.m. PST |
"A 2nd century cemetery of horses from a Roman cavalry unit has been discovered in Stuttgart, southwest Germany. With more than 100 horses skeletons found there, it is the largest Roman cavalry horse cemetery in southern Germany.
Horse skeletons were first unearthed in this area of Stuttgart's Bad Cannstatt suburb when residential homes were built in the 1920s, and while the excavations were limited, even back then archaeologists believed it had been a Roman horse cemetery. The site was excavated in July of last year in advance of new construction project, under the supervision of the State Office for Monument Preservation (LAD) in the Stuttgart Regional Council. They unearthed the remains of the 100 or so horses and one human who was atypically buried on his stomach without grave goods among the animals rather than in the burial ground of the Roman settlement…"
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