"Extraordinary mass graves along highway route" Topic

Archaeologists found dozens of skeletons from 1745 and 1866 battles, including personal belongings

Fox News: link

That would be an interesting dig.

What amazes me is that there are not more mass graves being uncovered regularly. How many millions of combatants have died between the Channel and the Urals? Where have all the bodies gone?

(1) Bodies were mostly looted and stripped. Clothes were expensive and live soldiers needed those boots.
(2) Acidic soils eat skeletons. There are places which the archeologists know are grave sites, but they find only artifacts--no surviving flesh or bone.
(3) Maybe not so many "millions" of pre-WWI combatants. Small populations, small armies, and plenty of non-battlefield deaths.
(4) Find and report anything of archeological interest, and you could be laid off for six months while the archeologists go over what was supposed to be your construction site with sieves. They might let you build there--some day. And you MIGHT be hired when they do.

Always something new to be learned.

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Find and report anything of archeological interest, and you could be laid off for six months while the archeologists go over what was supposed to be your construction site with sieves. They might let you build there--some day.

Also many wartime graves were looted for the bones which were ground up for calcium content. That happened to some of the Waterloo graves sites, IIRC.

Jim