TOKYO – Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of whom are believed to have died in an epidemic, who were buried in a 19th-century mass grave that is being excavated for a progression assignment for the city in Osaka. , in western Japan.
Officials from the Osaka City Cultural Property Association, which is reading the remains, said they believed they were other young people who died in the last 19th century.
Umeda’s tomb, one of seven historic burial sites in Japan’s bustling Osaka city market, has been closed as a component of a remodeling task near a major train station.September 2019, after an earlier review of 2016-17 that approached a lot of similar rivet in adjacent locations, according to Yoji Hirata, an official of the organization.
“This was our first historical discovery of a burial site in Osaka,” Hirata said.”The effects will provide main points on other people’s funeral traditions at that time.”
During past excavations, many remains showed symptoms of limb injuries.The discovery of other similar remains suggests that the burial site was intended for those suffering an epidemic in the area, Hirata said.
All remains have been removed from the excavation site and experts will read about them and other artifacts in the hope of locating more main points about the deaths. Some experts have raised the option of a syphilis epidemic, which then ravaged the populated spaces.like Osaka.
Many of the remains were in small circular holes, where the bodies were supposedly stacked and buried.Archaeologists discovered coffins containing several remains, a sign that many sick people from an epidemic were buried together, Hirata said.
Experts also discovered about 350 urns and an imagined deposit of bones at the site, symptoms that the bodies had been incinerated; they also unearthed coins, Buddhist prayer beads, headdresses, combs, sake cups and clay dolls that were supposedly buried with the dead.
The remains of several piglets were buried in the north of the cemetery and two horses in the south.