Research
Rare fifth-century burials of Germanic chieftains with dazzling weapons and warhorses discovered in France
Live Science · By Kristina Killgrove ·
The Brief
- Archaeologists excavating in northeastern France found a small fifth-century cemetery.
- The cemetery holds the graves of two Germanic chieftains and two warhorses.
- The burials were reported as rare, with dazzling weapons.
Why it matters
The cemetery adds evidence about the transitional period after the fall of the Roman Empire, a period with few well-documented elite burials.
Who’s affected
- Archaeologists and historians of late antiquity and early medieval Europe
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Archaeologists excavating in northeastern France have unearthed a small fifth-century cemetery containing the graves of two Germanic chieftains and two warhorses. The burial ground is providing new information about the transitional period after the fall of the Roman Empire . The…