Authorities in Bologna, Italy, have announced the discovery of the site of the city’s medieval Jewish cemetery, which was destroyed in 1569, after Pope Pius V banished Jews from everywhere in the papal territories.
The discovery, announced Tuesday at a news conference by Bologna Mayor Virginio Merola and other officials, including Bologna’s chief rabbi and Jewish community president, was made through archeological excavations in 2012-14 which uncovered 408 graves, making the cemetery the largest medieval Jewish cemetery known to date in Italy.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Wow. Tremendous. Move over Uman, Bologna here I come.
Neat history.