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Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart
Back in the 1970s, when archaeologists excavated a skeleton from an ancient graveyard in Belgium, they thought they had found ...
Skeleton made from bones of five people across 2,500 years found in Belgium
The tomb, known as "Tomb 26," was unearthed in the 1970s during excavations of a cemetery in Pommerœul, near the French ...
A Skeleton Bank of Understudied Species
With a new database of medical images, zoo and wildlife vets can finally see what healthy uncommon animals, from rhinos and ...
Scientists Found a 2,300-Year-Old Skeleton. It Solved the Mystery of Japanese Ancestry.
The influx of Korean Peninsula immigrants to Japan probably led to a significant culture shift on the island country.
Live Science on MSN7d
Puzzling patchwork skeleton in Belgium contains bones from 5 people spanning 2,500 years
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.
'Extraordinary' Skeleton Found in Castle Well Corroborates Medieval Saga
Researchers say the discovery matched "very well" with a story documented in a historical text known as the Sverris Saga.
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Archaeologists crack mystery of skeleton made of bones from people who lived millennia apart
Archaeologists have unravelled the mystery of a strange skeleton from Belgium consisting of bones from five people who lived 2,500 years apart. The skeleton, unearthed in the 1970s at a Roman ...
New Scientist on MSN18d
DNA helps match 'Well Man' skeleton to 800-year-old Norwegian saga
The Sverris saga describes how castle invaders “took a dead man and cast him unto the well, and then filled it up with stones”, in what may have been an early act of biological warfare - and now resea ...
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Blue whale skeleton still leaking oil, 26 years after death
Associate Curator of Science and Research Robert Rocha cleaning KOBO. The blue whale skeleton has been on display since 2000. CREDIT: New Bedford Whaling Museum. The carcass was eventually towed ...