Shackled men in 2,600-year-old Greek mass graves were likely locals, archaeologists find

Archaeologists in Greece have identified the shackled men found in mass graves at the Phaleron Burial Ground as likely locals, not foreign captives as once suspected. The site, part of the ancient Attica region, holds seventy-nine adult men buried together in three graves dating back to the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, Phys.org reports. Many of the skeletons were bound at the wrists with metal shackles, a detail that has long fueled speculation about who they were and why they died together.

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