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Case of mysterious medieval skeleton buried in Roman-era sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey finally solved


A sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey with Roman and Anglo-Saxon decorations baffled archaeologists, but now a 150-year-old mystery has finally been solved.

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