Officials examined the contents of the coffin once it was retrieved but were careful not to displace any of them. Reports suggested that Oliver himself removed the skeleton and dug up the coffin ...

A nearly complete human skeleton, believed to be at least 100 years old, was recently discovered in a coffin on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The remarkable find was made by George Oliver ...

“Typically, we might find a leg bone or an arm bone or just not this much of one skeleton, and that’s just because they found it in the coffin.” While she is unable to determine the ...

But his tomb has never been found. Analysis of the skeleton inside the lead coffin revealed it to be of a man aged about 35, who suffered from bone tuberculosis in his neck and head, and spent a ...

The skeleton was discovered in July in a wooden coffin in a park beneath building foundations. The remains, they said, displayed injuries consistent with those sustained by Gudin, a veteran of ...