Sensational discovery, PHOTOS: antique village remnants found under the Belgrade-Budapest railway

Archaeologists found traces of an antique Sarmatian village under a segment of the Belgrade-Budapest railway before its construction started. The village is close to Kishegyes, a small town of approximately 5,000 residents, almost 90 percent of which are Hungarians.

Balázs Szűcs, the director of the Szabadka Cultural Heritage Institution, highlighted that they knew where they had to search for the village thanks to examinations conducted with modern equipment. Therefore, they expected that there would be something under the construction sites.

Now it is clear that an antique Sarmatian village existed near Kishegyes. He added that they do not regularly do excavations during the winter period. Currently, it was urgent to help the construction project continue. Thanks to the mild weather, they could carry out the work easier.

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They removed the upper layer of the soil. Drone images show the shape of the antique buildings, ditches, and ovens the Sarmatians built between AD 1st and 5th centuries. They will be able to say precise data in the project’s second phase when they dig everything out, analyse and organise them systematically. Finally, of course, they will be exhibited.

Here are some photos about the sensational discovery from the Facebook page of the mayor of Kishegyes, István Sárközi:

The mayor said in his post that archaeologists expect Sarmatian and early-medieval findings in a territory that is almost 10 thousand square metres.

The Sarmatians were nomadic people, arriving to the Carpathian Basin in AD 1st century. There they settled down and merged with other peoples during the following centuries.

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Source: MTI