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Jennifer Nalewicki

Battle axes unearthed in a cemetery in Russia may have belonged to 11th-century taxmen

An aerial view of a burial containing a skeleton and grave goods.

While excavating a vast cemetery in Russia, archaeologists unearthed two medieval human skeletons buried with battle axes and equestrian equipment. 

Since 2020, researchers have been conducting fieldwork at the 7-acre (3 hectares) medieval site, known as the Gnezdilovo burial ground, which was originally discovered in 1851 in the town of Suzdal, located northeast of Moscow. During the latest excavations, archaeologists surveyed roughly 50 "undisturbed burials" scattered throughout the cemetery, according to a translated statement from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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