Really, Really Old Fabric Found in Greece.



From the website:

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer’s "Iliad." …

The cylindrical urn also contained dried pomegranates — offerings linked with the ancient gods of the underworld — along with ashes and charred human bones from an early 7th century B.C. cremation.

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Posted on May 13, 2007 at 1:05 pm by Alex
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