No less than 80 skeletons lie in a mass grave in an old Greek burial ground, their wrists cinched by iron shackles.

They are the people in question, say archeologists, of a mass execution. Yet, what their identity was, the way they arrived and why they seem to have been covered with a proportion of regard – stays a secret.

Skeletal remaining parts, with iron shackles on their wrists, are laid in succession at the old Falyron Delta graveyard in Athens

They were tracked down recently in piece of the Falyron Delta necropolis – a huge old burial ground uncovered during the development of a public drama house and library between downtown Athens and the port of Piraeus.

Scarcely any individuals have had the option to get in to have a nearby look.

In any case, on an uncommon visit through the site, archeologists painstakingly showed Reuters the skeletons, some lying in a long perfect column in the recovered sandy ground, others heaped on top of one another, arms and legs bent with their jaws hanging open.

“They have been executed, all in a similar way. However, they have been covered with deference,” Dr. Stella Chryssoulaki, head of unearthings, said.

“They are tied at the hands with cuffs and the vast majority of them are extremely youthful and in an excellent condition of wellbeing when they were executed.”

The specialists trust DNA testing and exploration by anthropologists will reveal precisely how the lines of individuals passed on. Whatever happened was fierce – most had their arms bound over their heads, the wrists integrated.

In any case, the efficient way they have been covered propose these were more than slaves or normal hoodlums.

The graveyard dates from between the eighth and fifth century BC.

“It is a time of extraordinary distress for Athenian culture, a period where blue-bloods, aristocrats, are fighting with one another for power,” said Chryssoulaki.

Shackled skeletal remaining parts are heaped on top of one another at the antiquated Falyron Delta burial ground in Athens

The remaining parts had a place with men who had been ruthlessly executed

One of the most grounded speculations is that they were allies of Cylon, an Athenian respectable and Olympic hero who organized an endeavored upset in Athens in 632 BC with the assistance of his father by marriage, the despot of Megara.

The upset fizzled and Cylon concealed in a sanctuary of the Acropolis. He figured out how to get away, yet individuals who upheld him were killed.

“Maybe with the DNA tests that we will do on these skeletons we might affirm or not this speculation that these departed, these youngsters could be … part of an overthrow … an endeavor by an honorable to take power forcibly,” said Chryssoulaki.

In excess of 1,500 bodies lie in the entire graveyard, a few babies let go in fired pots, different grown-ups consumed on memorial service fires or covered in stone caskets. One coffin is produced using a wooden boat.

The skull of a kid is seen inside an earth container, a typical practice for the entombment of infants and youngsters in old Greece

Not at all like Athens’ eminent antiquated Kerameikos burial ground, the last resting spot of numerous conspicuous old Greeks, these give off an impression of being the occupants of customary areas.

The dig is inside a 170,000 sq m finished park, shadowed by the immense new current library and drama house structures being worked by the Stavros Niarchos generous establishment.

Skyscraper lofts speck the horizon toward the north while an uproarious motorway snakes by the site’s east side.

Chryssoulaki needs to see a historical center based on the spot, as a landmark to the regular routines of Athenians from another time.

“A graveyard is a first and last photo in olden times of those individuals that pass from life to death,” she said