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Puzzling patchwork skeleton in Belgium contains bones from 5 people spanning 2,500 years

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A skeleton excavated from a Roman -era cremation cemetery in Belgium is 2,500 years older than previously thought.

Archaeologists found bones from at least five people who lived three millennia apart.

The bones were found in a cemetery in the town of Pommerœul , Belgium , in the 1970s .