Archaeologists from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw and Armenia’s Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reserves have excavated a double burial dating back to the Late Bronze Age (1300-1200 BC) at the necropolis of Metsamor in Armenia.
The joint project, led by Krzysztof Jakubiak and Ashot Piliposian, has found around 100 burials at the site, but this discovery from the latest season is one of the few that had not been previously looted.
Inside the cist tomb were the remains of a man and a woman, thought to have died in their 30s, along with a burial bed, ceramic vessels, gold pendants, and more than a hundred amber and carnelian beads, which made up three necklaces.
As there are no signs of the tomb having been reopened, it is thought that the man and woman died at the same time and were buried together.
