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Deep Dive: Solving an ancient cold case: Roman was brutally murdered

Ran in the Morning edition of LivePulse, Monday, October 26, 2026
Original reporting: Phys.org Archaeology, 2026-10-26

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.

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