A skeleton excavated from a Roman-era cremation cemetery in Belgium surprised archaeologists when they found it was actually 2,500 years older than they had assumed. Looking closely at the skeleton, the archaeologists discovered something even more unexpected: It was made up of bones from at least five people who lived three millennia apart.
"I think that, initially, the 'individual' was made at once," Barbara Veselka, an archaeologist at Vrije Universiteit Brussel who led the study, told Live Science in an email. "There were other bones scattered around the 'individual,' suggesting that people could also have come back to the burial."
