2,500-year-old uneaten food found buried in Ancient Selinunte
Posted On: Jan 7th, 2016 at 22:48
Greece / Italy
Like the buried remains of Pompeii, a part of ancient Selinunte in Sicily was preserved under a collpased building roof when invaders burnt the city in the 5th Century BC.
Archaeologists have even found uneaten food in bowls and unfired pots as the city was attacked rapidly and mercilessly by North African invaders.
The most important element, however, is this is the first time that archaeologists have been able to piece together an entire Greek city, as all other known cities only provide fragmentary evidence due to widespread destruction of the structures within them. In Selinunte, archaeologists have identified all 2,500 houses that existed in the city, providing invaluable evidence and giving scholars a complete insight into ancient Greek life.
