Warriors buried with their HORSES — 1,500 years ago. ⚔️
📅 11 November 2026
France's INRAP has announced an "exceptional" 5th-century cemetery at Horbourg-Wihr, near Colmar in Alsace: 14 graves — 11 adults and 3 children — plus two horses buried with their harnesses.
Two warriors were buried with swords in wooden scabbards, a shield, a scramasax blade and an angon spear — the kit of Germanic leaders or foederati, allied troops who served in Rome's late army. Two skeletons even carry unhealed wounds from sharp blades.
The cemetery dates to the second half of the 5th century — the twilight of Roman rule in the region, when the last Western emperor fell in 476.
If you were buried 1,500 years ago, what would you want beside you? 👇