Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)

CHAPTER THREE – Archaeological, anthropological and radiological data

Figure 13. The five graves opened by János

Érdy as

drawn by János

Varsányi. The

separate picture is an enlarged drawing of skeleton II/52_3’s grave: it is clearly discernible that the grave is made of stone and thus should have been classified as a Category I (royal grave) and not a Category II (earth grave). According to archaeological data, skeleton II/52_3 clearly dates from before Béla

III.

According to 12th century burial customs, only royal persons were interred in stone graves inside the Basilica, and immediate family members were buried next to each other (Engel 1987).

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