How to See a Coffin That's Already Disintegrated
Researchers are using a combination of cutting-edge technologies to identify materials that have long since decomposed. A team of archaeologists and historians announced on Tuesday that they’ve identified the remains of four prominent men who died at Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America, between 1608 and 1616—extraordinary news made even more intriguing by the discovery of a relic that suggests there were Catholics secretly living among the Protestants there.
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