Info Of Mystery Over 'Female' Remains Establish On Male-Only Greek Mountain

Archaeologists country the bones at the site inwards Mount Athos are then pocket-sized they could
belong to a woman. Photograph: Phaidon Hadjiantoniou

Discovery of remains inwards all-male monastic community inwards northern Hellenic Republic poses questions

Laura Wynn-Antikas specialises inwards bringing bones to life. Decades spent studying skeletal remains across Greece, inwards subterranean vaults, tombs, chapels together with archaeological sites, select yielded a host of unexpected discoveries. “You never know what you lot are going to find,” the American-born anthropologist said. “Bones don’t lie. They volition tell you lot how a mortal lived together with possibly fifty-fifty how they died. You become inwards prepared to encounter everything.”

But when Wynn-Antikas was called to evidence bones unearthed beneath the rock flooring of a Byzantine chapel inwards the all-male monastic share of Mount Athos fifty-fifty she was surprised. Some were then pocket-sized they bore fiddling resemblance to men at all.

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