|
Title: Rich African gives new clues to Roman Britain Post by: Sexy Legs (Leighton) on February 26, 2010, 09:04:13 PM Tests on the skeleton of a rich 4th century Roman woman found in Britain reveal she was of black African ancestry, a discovery experts said proved the island's multi-cultural origins were much earlier than thought.
Archaeologists from the University of Reading re-examined the remains of the "Ivory Bangle Lady" unearthed in a stone coffin in York in 1901. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100226/tuk-uk-britain-romans-fa6b408.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100226/tuk-uk-britain-romans-fa6b408.html) |