According to local media sources, a 2,500-year-old tomb in Italy was recently discovered with a rare last meal remaining within.
A 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb was recently excavated in Italy, according to local media reports. It contained a rare last meal.
A news release from the Parco di Vulci, an archaeological site, on April 4 stated that the tomb, which was found around 70 miles northwest of Rome, was constructed by the mysterious Etruscan civilisation, which lived on the Italian peninsula before the Romans.
As reported by the Italian news site GreenMe, the necropolis had been unaltered since it was built in the sixth century B.C. and was surrounded by massive stone slabs.
Archaeologists were reportedly speechless when they discovered the centuries-old burial chamber, according to GreenMe.
Upon excavating the ancient tomb, archaeologists found pottery and a brazier.
The existence of a weaving tool and a piece of pottery leads the park to believe that it belonged to a lady.
The remains of a final meal were also discovered within the tomb, which was a rare and extraordinary discovery, according to the Italian news source TGR.
According to TGR, a bronze brazier, or cooking pan, included coals and a spit. The tools would have been utilized to skewer meat.
According to the site, a laboratory will conduct an analysis on the recently discovered artifacts.
Coals in a brazier and a skewer constituted the remains of the last meal, archaeologists said
A 2013 study in the French journal Anthropozoologica suggested that animal remains previously found in an Etruscan tomb might have been part of a ritual offering known as "meal of the dead."
The Smithsonian Magazine claims that the Romans vanquished the clever Etruscans in the third century B.C. They were a people with a mysterious language and a disputed origin. Their culture had a profound impact on Roman and Greek culture.
