'The lepers were dropped off here, went thro that tunnel into the village and never came out again,' said Savvas looking at the long, dark passageway that led through the entrance in the stone walls. 'It was like being sent into Hades while they were still alive, a living death. Manolis's parents were young folk, poor souls, yet as far as the world was concerned they were as good as dead.'
Petros looked at his father and sensed his unease. It seemed an intrusion somehow. Manolis was right. The dead should be left in peace here. Then he shrugged. If that was the case, no excavation or archaeology would ever take place. It was because it was all so recent that it bothered them. Perhaps because his parents had known some of the people who had been sent here, because the whole thought of tha
