Skeletons We have excavated three human burials at our site this week. 2 adults and 1 child. One of the adults was buried with a tile cover, suggesting that he/she was of importance. The other two graves were probably buried in wooden coffins, we found only the nails from the coffin. In the section I have been personally working in, we have come upon a similar layer to that of the section with the graves, so I am hopeful that we will uncover another grave in the next two days. Until we found the grave of the child, we thought that if we located graves that they would have been the graves of the monks (since this site is of a 6th century Orthodox Christian church and monastery), but since we found a child's grave, that
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