Necropolis filled with remains of common laborers found near Ponte Galeria

First-century burial grounds near Rome's main airport are yielding a rare look into how ancient longshoremen and other manual workers did backbreaking jobs, archeologists said Monday. Most of the 300 skeletons unearthed [near the town of Ponte Galeria] were male, and many of them showed signs of years of heavy work: joint and tendon inflammation, compressed vertebrae, hernias and spinal problems, archeologists said. Sandy sedim...
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