Punic Necropolis of Palermo
The Punic Necropolis of Palermo is located in the western part of the city and the part that can be visited is located under the Tukory barracks.
During the Punic era, the necropolis was located outside the city walls, on a upstream area which was the natural continuation of the stretch of land generated by the two rivers Kemonia and Papireto. Since 1746, the year of the first discoveries that took place on the occasion of the construction of the poor man's inn, over seven hundred tombs have been found. The excavation of a portion of the necropolis was completed between February and June 2004: a total of about 150 burials were excavated, extensively distributed under the Tukory barracks. The necropolis covers a chronological period between the end of the 7th and the beginning of the 3rd century BC. and it includes, from a typological point of view, both hypogeic chamber tombs and burials in a lithic sarcophagus and depositions in the earth pit.
