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During many years afterwards, the Plataeans used often to find upon
the field of battle concealed treasures of gold, and silver, and other
valuables. More recently they likewise made discovery of the
following: the flesh having all fallen away from the bodies of the
dead, and their bones having been gathered together into one place,
the Plataeans found a skull without any seam, made entirely of a
single bone; likewise a jaw, both the upper bone and the under,
wherein all the teeth, front and back, were joined together and made
of one bone; also, the skeleton of a man not less than five cubits in height.
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