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After 150 Years, Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery of Westminster Abbey’s Roman Coffin


Radiocarbon dating and traces of a vanished wooden coffin suggest that a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey became the final resting place of a medieval abbot.

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