Over 40 years ago, archaeologists in Pommeroeul, a small town in southern Belgium, unearthed a skeleton that seemed, at first, to be a straightforward Roman burial from 1,700 years ago.
But when researchers revisited the site in 2019 to perform radiocarbon dating, they stumbled upon a startling discovery.
The skull indeed dated to the Roman era, but the other bones told a different story altogether.
They
were from various historical periods and, even more unusually, came
from at least five different individuals. This mysterious skeleton, it
appeared, had been pieced together like a morbid puzzle....<<<Read More>>>...
