Cars crumbling, falling to the ancient tomb 3,400 years

A Greek farmer parked a car under an olive tree in his garden when the car collapsed. He struggled to pull the car up and found an ancient crypt.

Greek authorities have announced the ancient tomb that a farmer in southeastern Crete has discovered up to 3,400 years old - about 1,400 to 1,200 years ago, belonging to the late Minoan culture.

An ancient grave corner, seen from above the pit - (photo: Lassithi Ephorate of Antiquities).

According to the local newspaper Cretapost, the unnamed farmer discovered the ancient tomb in a rather humorous situation: he parked under a large olive tree in the garden to cool, unknowingly the car gradually collapsed into the pit. After struggling to pull the car up, he saw . the ceramic coffins.

In the car of a peasant farmer - (photo: Lassithi Ephorate of Antiquities).

Authorities immediately sent an archaeological team to come and determined that the farmer had discovered an extremely valuable relic.

The tomb is quite large, chiseled into soft limestone, the entrance may be a vertical groove like other ancient graves of the same period in Greece but this way has been sealed with stone. The farmer's car accidentally opened another way because it punctured a hole above the grave. Before that, an automatic watering machine in the garden was damaged, overflowing, and soiling in that area was spoiled.

A corner of an ancient tomb - (photo: Lassithi Ephorate of Antiquities)

One of the two skeletons is well preserved in the ceramic coffin - (photo: Lassithi Ephorate of Antiquities)

This ancient tomb contains two stone coffins, each containing a skeleton, two sets of pots and some colorful jewelry. Archaeologists say the status of the ancient tomb is "excellent" . The grave floor is 2.5 meters deeper than the current ground.

This small ceramic coffin is called larnakes , preserving the bones quite well. The dead body is arranged in a crouching position, bending to fit the coffin. Archaeologists will continue to study the two ancient skeletons.