HUNGARIAN EXCAVATORS’ 40 YEARS’ TOIL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 23 February 1929, Page 7

HUNGARIAN EXCAVATORS’ 40 YEARS’ TOIL

Ends in Finding of Roman Ruins Tlie plan and outline of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum, half an hour's walk from the heart of tho city of Budapest, has now been uncovered through the devoted efforts of Kuzinsky the excavator, who has persisted steadily in his labours at the site sincerLSSS. Mr. Kuzinsky has succeeded in establishing the fact that Aquincum was fortified in S 6 A. D., though the city is thought to have been founded about 400 B. C.

Overrun by the Huns and tho Avars, Aquincum with Its 00,000 inhabitants was given over tb barbarian rule and when tho Maygars first came there tho ruins were still high above the ground.

In the eleventh century, however, demolition began, the place being used as a stone quarry.

In 1594, mainly by Mr. Kuzinsky’s persistence, a museum was founded in Budapest, to house the findings, and the Budapest Municipality has placed a medallion bearing Mr. Kuzinsky ”s head, on the museum. Other excavations near Szejed, car ried out by Franz Mora, director of the museum there, are of great value for a study of tho .emigration movement

of primitive tribes, most of which passed over Hungarian soil. The most valuable find is that of a burial place from the Bronze Age, which is richer in bronze relics than any previously discovered in Europe. In a street of a village on the banks of the Maros 30 tombs have up to the present been excavated, and in each are at least three vessels for drinking, without mentioning ornaments of bronze and armbands of shells, which are now housed in the Szejed Museum.