THETo the oldest necropolis of Lazio? It is at Circeo, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. Prehistoric human bones, dating back to Mesolithic, have resurfaced, surprisingly, during Archaeological Excavations with shelter Blanc. Not in one of the numerous prehistoric caves on the sea at the foot of the Circeo massif, but in a “shelter” at the foot of a cliff that today bears the name of Alberto Carlo Blanc, the scholar who brought to the honors of the chronicles the Paleolithic sites of the Circeo in the 1930s and 1940s.
Between 2016 and 2019 the archaeologists Flavio Altamura and Margherita Mussi, at the time with the University of Rome Sapienza, undertake new excavations on the site which, in the meantime, has been forgotten. “A unique discovery,” says the archaeologist PHD Flavio Altamura alla ANSA
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