Germans: Please be from ancient times! Please be from ancient times!
They were plague victims. So not strictly ancient.
Much better than 8 years old and next to a refugee shelter, or 3 years old behind a hospital.
I was thinking more of the period between 1933 and 1945 …
Why though? We have an idea what happened at the time and given the about 50 million deaths in total, of which about 30 million were directly caused by Germany, having another 1000 more or less bodies uncovered will not change the overall magnitude of Germanys crimes at that time.
I am starting to think I should have put an /s after my initial comment. It was supposed to be a a silly joke, pointing to the fact that many Germans do not like to be reminded of that particular time, sorry if that was not clear enough.
Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s and early 1600s, and found shards of pottery and coins dating from the later end of that range at the site.
They really could have just said that in the title.