According to Daily Mail, the two-month excavation was led by archaeological consultancy Kantharos and conducted in the Radošević palace complex on the island of Hvar in Croatia.
The archaeological team found a total of 20 tombs with the remains of 32 individuals on an area of about 65 square meters. Some tombs contain the remains of many individuals and some remains are buried in pottery jars.
According to experts, burying in ceramic jars is popular and is believed to be for infants and children. However, the age of the remains has not been determined.
They also excavated part of a wall with a complete citadel gate - believed to be from a settlement in the late 5th century and another wall dating from the 2nd century.
"What is special about the discovered tombs is that they are very complete," the researchers said. Most of the tombs are decorated with one or more ceramic vases, lamps, bottles, glass vases, money and other small items".
They added: "Among all the traces of the last antique found in whereververver to be, this is truly the most important and richest site. The excavation of the Radošević Palace gives us the most detailed look at the funeral customs of that time."
