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 ...

“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 ...

Archaeologist Kelly Madigan said finding a skeleton inside a coffin was "a rarity" giving a "rare glimpse" into funerary practices 2,000 years ago. Initial laboratory tests are being conducted and ...

Without oxygen to keep them alive, the cells self-destruct, spilling all that fluid onto the coffin floor. By that night, an even more troubling process begins in the gut. Your dying immune system ...

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 ...