What looked like an ice cream shop in Gdańsk, Poland, was hiding a medieval cemetery with nearly 300 graves, and the,... [View all]

..... the shock find includes a full skeleton beneath a 59-inch knight slab carved in the late 1200s or early 1300s

For years, people in Gdańsk walked into the Miś ice cream parlor for scoops and summer lines, with no reason to think a medieval cemetery sat under their feet. Then a redevelopment project opened the ground, and archaeologists found a carved limestone tombstone showing a knight with a sword, shield, helmet, and chain mail.

The discovery is more than a strange twist in an old shopping spot. Beneath the former parlor, researchers uncovered a well-preserved male skeleton and evidence that this corner of the city once joined faith, burial, trade, and political power during Gdańsk’s earliest centuries.

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