As per recent reports, the Jewish community in Vienna has unearthed the ancient Jewish tombstones that are said to be of high historic importance.

Some of these stones date back to 16th century, it was learnt. On Wednesday, Raimund Fastenbauer, a Senior Official of Jewish Community, said that the headstones were having high historic value.

He said the gravestones were buried by few Jews in 1943 to hide them from Nazis. They were recently recovered when the small cemetery was being renovated. About 20 headstones have been excavated so far and the officials say that about hundreds could be yielded yet.

The stones have been recovered by the Jewish leaders in the Austrian capital after about 70 years. They said that its importance was comparable to Prague's Jewish cemetery. Fastenbauer said that according to him about 600 missing stones still lie below the ground.

According to the Vienna's Jewish leaders, it is not yet clear that how many were buried by the Viennese Jews in those times. They did this to save their heritage from Nazis, it is said.

Community leader Oskar Deutsch argued that the stones were 500 years old. He expected that in coming weeks more of them will be discovered while finding and restoring of all the stones will take years.