The gruesome execution took place 2,000 years ago on the Greek island of Thasos.
The Greek island of Thasos is one of the jewels of the Aegean Sea and a popular tourist destination. But 2,000 years ago, it was the setting for what appears to be a gruesome and bizarre execution, according to research conducted by an interdisciplinary team.
“My position based on interdisciplinary analysis, but particularly based on archaeological forensics, is that this was a violent death—an execution,” Agelarakis told Newsweek. As a result of these tests, the team came to the conclusion that the injury was not produced by a spear being thrown—the way it arcs in the air would produce a different kind of hole on impact. Instead, they believed that an expert executioner thrust the styrax into the man’s chest from close range with an “extreme level” of force while he was physically restricted in some way—tied down, perhaps.
“He was discovered in a necropolis from the Hellenistic period buried alongside a cluster of, most probably, family relatives,” Agelarakis told Newsweek. “I take the position that he must have been an important person who was executed because of his position in society, in the military, or in political affairs—or all of the above."
“It was certainly a period of growth and development but also, unfortunately, one that saw conflict between the successors of Alexander the Great," he said."And Thasos could not have been excluded from that because it was located in a very strategic place controlling the sea routes from the [Greek] mainland of Thrace and Macedonia toward the Black Sea, Asia Minor and the rest of the Aegean.
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