BATTLE OF CANNAE
SEVERAL HUNDRED TOMBS EXCAVATED. It has just been announced in the Italian “Corriere della Sera” that a great necropolis was found some months ago near where the port of Cannae used to be. So far several hundred tombs have been excavated, and it appears that the necropolis covers nearly four acres. Among the tombs where some of the dead were carefully laid are great numbers of skulls just as if many bodies had been hastily and confusedly interred there. A careful examination is being made of the remains, as if it can be established that they are those of Romans and Cartheginians it will help to settle the vexed question of the site of the Battle of Cannae, where in the summer of 216 B.C. Hannibal defeated eight Roman legions led by the Consuls Aemilius Paulus and Terentius Varo, with a slaughter among the two armies of 50,000 according to Livy and 80,000 according to Polybius. At present it is not known whether it was fought on the right or the left bank of the River Aufidus, now the Ofanto, near the sea or near the hills.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 8
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190BATTLE OF CANNAE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 8
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