SPLIT DISCOVER 1,600-YEAR-OLD SKELETON SPLIT, Sept 4 (Hina) - A skeleton found by children in the southern Croatian port of Split on September 2 is at least 1,600 years old, an employee of the town's Administration for the Protection
of Cultural Heritage was quoted as saying by local daily Slobodna Dalmacija on Saturday.
SPLIT, Sept 4 (Hina) - A skeleton found by children in the southern
Croatian port of Split on September 2 is at least 1,600 years old, an
employee of the town's Administration for the Protection of
Cultural Heritage was quoted as saying by local daily Slobodna
Dalmacija on Saturday.#L#
Playing in Grga Novak Street, three 13-year-olds found a buried
skeleton. After a police investigation, it was established the
skeleton was in truth an archaeological find.
According to Tajma Rismondo, the skeleton dates back to the period
between the first and fourth century A.D. The site where it was
found had probably been an antique grave, she said.
Rismondo explained that at the time of Emperor Diocletian (A.D.
245-313), the place where the skeleton was found had been part of a
Roman main road leading from the emperor's palace, Split's famous
Diocletian Palace, to ancient Salonika. The same location had later
been the site of a cemetery.
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