Historic battleground burial site uncovered
Sep 01, 2010
From wire reports
TALLINN - A burial ship has been discovered in Salme village, Estonia, which specialists consider could be from a pre-Viking era battleground burial, reports news agency ERR. If archeologists’ assumptions turn out to be accurate, it would mean that this is a unique find on a grand European scale. So far, 16 skeletons of men killed in battle have been discovered on the site.
As the specialists note, a fierce struggle took place some 1,250 years ago near a place where Salme village is ...
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