Resting places of up to 65 British kings found

[Kyng]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien...37073.html

Archaeologists have discovered what are likely to be the long-lost tombs of up to 65 British Kings and other senior royals from the era associated with the legend of King Arthur.

The discovery is a major breakthrough in archaeologists’ and historians’ understanding of the nature of dark age society. As investigations continue, it may also shed crucial new light on the currently often poorly understood political geography of post-Roman Britain.

Prior to the new research, only one final resting place of an indigenous British monarch from that time was known, along with half a dozen other potentially royal graves.

But now, at least 20 probable royal burial complexes (each containing up to five graves) have been tentatively identified – with a further 11 potentially royal burial complexes under consideration.

Most of them appear to date from the fifth and sixth centuries – a time when Britain was a patchwork quilt of dozens of small kingdoms.

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Wow, 65 kings is a lot . I know Britain was divided into lots of small independent kingdoms back then (rather than one or two big ones), but even so.

Hopefully, this will help to shed some light on the Dark Ages !

[Opal Fruit]

Oh, wow - how fascinating. I hope we can learn more about Britain's lesser-known past from this. What a find.

[Moonshroom]

65! I'll wager that some countries hadn't even had that many rules PERIOD.

It does tell something about how... unceremonial some of these proceedings were, though, now that we see that these graves had been lost for ages and that most knowledge related to them seens to have been lost.

[Kyng]

65! I'll wager that some countries hadn't even had that many rules PERIOD.

It does tell something about how... unceremonial some of these proceedings were, though, now that we see that these graves had been lost for ages and that most knowledge related to them seens to have been lost.

Well, like I said, there used to be lots of small kingdoms in Great Britain... many of these kingdoms were eventually conquered - and, once that happened, their conquerors probably didn't care too much about preserving the tombs of their vanquished enemies' previous kings .

And of course, part of it's just that these kings are really old . When they ruled, the Aztec Empire didn't exist yet... and wouldn't exist for another 900 years or so .