In the 1970s a skeleton was unearthed at an ancient Roman cemetery in Belgium that was thought to have belonged to a woman who lived between the years 69 and 210, during the Gallo-Roman era. This judgment was made even though the body was buried in a fetal position, which was not the Roman custom, because of the presence of a Roman bone pin found near the skull. But when radiocarbon dating tests were performed on the skeleton in 2019, the results were truly stunning. They showed that the grave contained a mixture of bones from different eras, meaning the skeleton was some kind of composite arranged to look like a single person. In a new analysis just completed by an international team of archaeologists and genetics, it has been determined that the “individual” buried in the cemetery in ancient Gaul was constructed from the bones of five different people from three different periods who lived 2,500 years apart. The earliest of the bones (the skull) did indeed come from Belgium’s Roman period. But the other bones belonged to people who lived in the Middle and Late Neolithic periods. “Flat-Packed” Roman Funerary Bed Found in London Roman Armor, the Backbone of the Ferocious Roman Warrior Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyHistoryAncient TraditionsRead Later