2024-06-09 19:55:43
“As a part of the coverage of the Ministry of Youth, Tradition and Communication aimed toward exploring and defending the nationwide archaeological heritage, and following a observe despatched by the conservation of the archaeological web site of Lixus and informing of the work of leveling in a burial web site situated close to the village Qsirissi (close to Larache), INSAP took the initiative, in coordination with the Directorate of Cultural Heritage, to arrange rescue excavations, from February 10 to 17 2023″, specifies the Institute in a press launch.
These emergency excavations, led by two archaeologists from INSAP, Abdelaziz EL Khayari and Aomar Akerraz, allowed the uncovering of stays of an historical tomb courting again greater than 2000 years and thus belonging to the Mauretanian interval which is predates the Roman occupation, it’s emphasised.
In line with the identical supply, the structure of the tomb was rigorously designed: Its partitions have been thus constructed with well-cut stone blocks and punctiliously assembled and adjusted. It was lined by a big slab greater than 2 m lengthy.
To present the tomb extra safety and provides it an imposing look, a big earthen mound was erected above it and earlier than its leveling had a diameter of greater than 20 m and a top of roughly 3 mr.
The press launch provides that contained in the tomb, the stays of an incomplete skeleton of a human have been discovered whose physique would have undergone, based on preliminary observations, an incomplete cremation, which corresponds to a ceremony funeral documented for the primary time within the Larache area. The stays have been buried with private results, particularly an iron knife blade and an uncommon ax of the identical metallic, which is of specific curiosity.
INSAP affirmed that “these information supplied by the emergency excavations are prone to contribute to enriching our information on the funerary practices and spiritual beliefs particular to the agricultural society of the Loukkos basin throughout the Mauretanian interval which extends from the eighth century BC to 40 AD”.
The assertion concluded that “as soon as the emergency excavations have been accomplished, preventive measures have been taken in coordination with the proprietor of the land – who demonstrated a outstanding spirit of collaboration – with a view to defend and preserve the tomb delivered to mild whereas ready for a brand new intervention to be undertaken to revive some lacking components of the tomb”.
2024-06-09 19:55:43