Just why the Romans did this, though, remains a mystery. The experts that made the discovery found that the natural ...

University of New York researchers have uncovered a Roman-era secret cemetery of a “high-status individual” in ...

A team from the University of York uncovered a Roman-era cemetery in Cambridgeshire with a unique burial of a "high-status ...

The central grave featured a single stone coffin carved from a solid block of limestone, and the burial inside was the gypsum-encased find. Locating a gypsum burial outside of a city center isn ...

Researchers found that the central grave contained a stone coffin carved from a single solid block of limestone. The burial in this grave was encased in gypsum before capping stones were placed on the ...