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Roman Gladiators from York

The Roman conquest of Britain began in 43 AD but resistance in the north
was fierce. Roman General Quintus Petillius Cerialis led the 9th Legion into the
north and founded Eboracum in 71 AD (which became York) Originally Eboracum was
intended to be a military fortress aligned along the river Ouse measuring about
50 acres in size. This wooden camp was upgraded to stone in 108 AD and
garrisoned by the 6th Legion. The famous Emperor Hadrian reportedly visited
Eboracum in 122 AD in order to plan his great walled frontier, which would be
named after him. Emperor Septimus Severus visited in 208 AD and made it his
private base while campaigning against Scotland, and he became the first of
three Roman Emperors who would die in Eboracum. In 237, the town became a
colonia, the highest legal status any Roman city could attain as Eboracum was
the largest town in the north and the capital of Britannia Inferior. This is
exactly the time period from when these 7 gladiators hailed.
Detailed analysis of these gladiators from York revealed some fascinating
results. The bones showed various degrees of wear and tear as one might expect
from the dangerous sport: 6DRIF-18 revealed a spinal fracture of the first
vertibrae, 6DRIF-21, 6DRIF-3, and 3DRIF-16 meanwhile have fractured forearms,
ankles and wrists. 6DRIF-22 has a skull injury as well as a stab to the neck -
his extra vertebrae did not seem to assist with his fate. 6DRIF-23 meanwhile had
4 cuts to his jaw and was fully decapitated - clearly not the best fate to have.
Last but not least 3DRIF-26 is fascinating indeed - he had a left shoulder
injury, fractured ribs, damage wrists - and from a genetic standpoint is a
deviation from the rest. His background compared to ancient samples from the
time period matches very close to Ptolemaic Egyptians or the Near East.
Read more here
St. Brice's Day Massacre

Aethelred II, known later as the Unready, was King of the English from
978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death. He came to the throne at the
age of 12 after his half brother was murdered. At the start of his reign, Danish
raids on English territory began in earnest. Aethelred defended his country by a
diplomatic alliance with the duke of Normandy. The Battle of Maldon on 11.
August 991 AD involved 2,000-4,000 fighting Viking men led by Olaf Tryggvason
against the Anglo-Saxon leader Byrhtnoth who was the Ealdorman of Essex. This
ended in defeat for the Anglo-Saxons and King Aethelred was forced to pay
tribute, also known as Danegeld, to the Danish king. This payment of 10,000
Roman pounds of silver was the first example of Danegeld in England - a pattern
which would follow. The Danish army continued ravaging the English coast until a
Danegeld of 22,000 pounds of gold and silver was paid - at which point Olaf
Tryggvason promised to never return. Viking attacks only grew worse - Danish
raids would follow leading to an even larger Danegeld payment of 24,000 pounds
for peace in the Spring of 1002 AD.
The same year, Aethelred married Lady Emma, the sister of Duke Richard II
of Normandy in hopes of a stronger diplomatic alliance. On St. Brice's Day, 13.
November 1002, the confident yet paranoid King ordered the killing of all Danes
living on border towns such as Oxford. Aethelred described this massacre in his
own words: ... a decree was sent out by me with the counsel of my leading men
and magnates, to the effect that all the Danes who had sprung up in this island,
sprouting like cockle amongst the wheat, were to be destroyed by a more just
extermination, and thus this decree was to be put into effect even as far as
death, those Danes who dwelt in the afore-mentioned town, striving to escape
death, entered this sanctuary of Christ, having broken by force the doors and
bolts, and resolved to make refuge and defence for themselves therein against
the people of the town and the subrubs; but when all the people in pursuit
strove, forced by necessitym to drive them out, and could not, they set fire to
the planks and burnt, as it seems, this church with its ornaments and its
books.
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French King Louis XVI Mystery

French revolutionists condemned King Louis XVI to death on 21. January 1793
by means of the guillotine at the Place de la Revolution in Paris (roughly where
the Obelisk decorating the Place de la Concorde stands today). After a short but
defiant speech he lost his head as the crowd rushed to the scaffold to dip
hankerchiefs into his blood as momentos. An ornate gourd decorated with French
Revolution themes was recently uncovered which had contained a blood soaked
hankerchief dating to this time. The gourd was allegedly a gift to Napoleon
Bonaparte who became First Consul of France in 1799 and Emperor in 1804. An
anonymous Italian family was in its posession since possibly the late 1800s and
came forward with the relic. It bears an inscription that Maximilien Bourdaloue
on 21. January dipped his hankerchief in the blood of the king. Dried blood was
scraped out and this is the same DNA we present in this DNA spotlight! The
sample contains unsually high and rare markers for the Y-DNA haplogroup G2a.
Louis XVI's direct male line ancestor Henri IV was famous for enacting the
Edict of Nantes which guaranteed religious liberties to Protestants ending 30
years of fighting between French Protestants and Catholics - he was assassinated
in 1610 by a French Catholic zealot. The remains had been presumed lost in the
chaos of the French Revolution after a mob of revolutionaries desecrated the
graves of French kings in the royal chapel of Saint-Denis in Paris in 1793.
However, the head was passed down over the centuries by secretive private
collectors and positively identifed in 2010 with a radiocarbon date between 1450
and 1650. The features were consistent with the king's face including a dark
mushroom-like lesion near the right nostrial, a healed facial stab wound and a
pierced right earlobe. The hair color and moustache and beard on the mummified
head fit the appearance of the king at the time of his death as well as matched
his portraits. Furthermore cutting wounds were visible corresponding to the
separation of the head from the body in 1793 and digital facial reconstruction
of the skull matched the plaster mould of his face made just after his death in
1610. The DNA was then tested and compared to the blood from the gourd.
Read more here

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