Ancient Assyrians sent their dead to the afterlife with fearsome companions: turtles. Excavations of a burial pit in southeastern Turkey revealed skeletons of a woman and a child,
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, plus 21 turtles,
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, a team led by archaeologist Rémi Berthon of France’s National Museum of Natural History reports in the February Antiquity,
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The burial is part of an Assyrian site called Kavu?an H?y&uuml,
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;k that dates to between 700 and 300 B,
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.C. The turtle bonanza included shells from one spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) and three Middle Eastern terrapins (Mauremys caspica), plus bones from 17 Euphrates soft-shelled turtles (Rafetus euphraticus). Butchering marks on the R,
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. euphraticus bones indicate that the turtles may have been eaten in a funerary feast, Berthon and his colleagues write.
Back then, turtles were not a regular meal in Mesopotamia. Turtle bones, however,
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, were thought to ward off evil. The abundance of R. euphraticus turtles, a notoriously aggressive species, in this burial pit suggests the deceased had high social status.
To ancient Assyrians, these ferocious reptiles probably represented eternal life and served as psychopomps — mythical guides to the afterlife, the team writes.?
Editor's Note: This story was updated on 4/15/16 to note that turtles were a rare part of the Mesopotamian diet,
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