Solving an ancient cold case: Roman was brutally murdered
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“The author felt extreme anger towards this man and it must have been an act of furious revenge,” say experts
Solving an ancient cold case: Roman was brutally murdered
This 2,000-year-old cold case offered a wealth of information, Leiden archaeologists Carol van Driel-Murray and Mark Driessen explain. Few skeletons from the late Iron Age and early Roman era have been preserved, making this largely intact skeleton a valuable research resource. In their new book Victims of Violence from the Early Roman Fort Velsen, Van Driel-Murray and Driessen reconstruct the cause of this man's death. This interdisciplinary st…
The amount of blows fired showed the violence of the murder, besides bringing strong clues that it was not a military confrontation
A Roman soldier found in a well reveals a 2,000-year-old murder mystery
A Roman soldier whose skeleton was found at the bottom of an ancient well suffered numerous stab wounds, according to a new investigation into his death nearly 2,000 years ago. The findings suggest the man died in a violent attack near a Roman fort at Velsen, in what is now the Netherlands. But who killed […]
In 1977, amateur archaeologists excavated the site of an ancient Roman fort in Velsen, on the coast of North Holland, and hit a well. At the bottom rested the almost complete skeleton of a man still wearing the military belt. Next to him was a dagger, a ring, a fibula (the brooch [...]
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