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Gigantic Skeleton Found Under Odessos Fortress Wall In Bulgaria 19 March, 2015 Share this story: Follow us:

Follow @messagetoeagle MessageToEagle.com - Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a gigantic man�s skeleton during rescue excavations of the ancient Greek and Roman city of Odessos in the downtown of the Black Sea city of Varna. The human skeleton has been found in a grave partly located under the fortress wall of Odessos, which is being excavated by archaeologists from the Varna Museum of Archaeology. The skeleton is dated back to the late 4th century or the early 5th century AD, according to Dr. Valeri Yotov leading the rescue excavations of Varna�s ancient city of Odessos.



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Most of the upper body part of the skeleton found in Varna was lying under the newly discovered fortress wall of ancient Odessos. Photo: TV grab from Nova TV

A tall man�s skeleton buried in a construction ditch partly under the fortress wall of the ancient city of Odessos has been discovered in the downtown of Bulgaria�s Varna. Photo: TV grab from Nova TV

It has been found near the St. Nikolay Church, just 20 meters away from the site where a 5th century earthen jar was discovered in January 2015 by construction workers during water supply and sewer rehabilitation, an event that triggered the rescue excavations of the so called Varna Largo, the passenger zone on the central Knyaz Boris I Boulevard,' according to source. Last week, the Varna archaeologists found a previously unknown part of the Odessos fortress wall as well as part of another earthen jar and a hand mill from the late Antiquity.

A hand mill from the late Antiquity, unearthed about 20 meters from St. Nikolay Church, where the gigantic skeleton was found.

A 5th century earthen jar, discovered in January 2015 almost in the same place.

�As we started to uncover the ancient fortress wall, we started asking ourselves a lot of questions, and, of course, we had to keep digging to reach the wall�s foundations. That�s how we stumbled upon the skeleton,� explains Yotov, as cited by Varna Utre.

The working hypothesis of the Varna archaeologists is that the skeleton belongs to a man who died during the construction of the fortress wall of ancient Odessos, and that his remains were laid in a pit originally dug up as a construction ditch for the wall foundations which was also �utilized� as a grave.

The man�s death might have been caused by a work-related accident or a different type of occurrence at the time the wall was being erected, according to Yotov.

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