Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century cemetery is made up of bones from many people spanning thousands of years – but we don’t know who asse ...
The skeleton, unearthed in the 1970s at a Roman cemetery, was laid to rest in a fetal position. The bones were initially thought to be from the second or third century AD even though the ...
A skeleton buried in a fetal position is actually made of bones from at least five people who lived across a span of 2,500 years. A skeleton excavated from a Roman-era cremation cemetery in ...