A recent study published in the journal Antiquity has revealed that a skeleton discovered in a Roman-era tomb in Pommerœul, Belgium, is actually a composite of bones from at least five ...

Archaeologists have unravelled the mystery of a strange skeleton from Belgium consisting of bones from five people who lived 2,500 years apart.. The skeleton, unearthed in the 1970s at a Roman ...

The skeleton’s bones are actually much older, with the earliest “contributor” dying nearly 4,445 years ago, per New Scientist. The skeleton contains bones from multiple generations in the ...

The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Many high school science or art rooms have a human skeleton hanging next to a chalkboard or by a teacher's desk. And many of those skeletons - they're made with real bones.