Grave of Roman soldier unearthed in Heerlen

Grave of Roman soldier unearthed in Heerlen

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of Roman settlement in Heerlen by uncovering a burial containing the remains of a Roman soldier. Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. During the early 1st century AD, the Romans established a military settlement named Coriovallum at the crossing of two Roman roads: Cologne to Boulogne, and Xanten to Trèves via Heerlen and Aix-la-Chapelle. By the mid-1st century …