Hundreds of Bodies of Napoleonic Soldiers Unearthed in Germany

Hundreds of skeletons of soldiers in Napoleon's army have been discovered in the city of Frankfurt at a future construction site thanks to archaeological studies started decades ago.

“We estimate that about 200 people were buried here. According to our preliminary estimates, they are soldiers who belonged to the Grande Armée that died in 1813 ” on their way back home after the “painful defeat of Napoleon in his Russian campaign” stated Olaf Cunitz, the Mayor of Frankfurt, in the newspaper ABC.

The graves were uncovered thanks to the excavations performed by a group of archaeologists at the site over several decades. In 1979, they found other bodies of soldiers in an area close to the current discovery, reported Le Figaro.