The 1,600-Year-Old Skeleton Found Inside A Giant Roman Jar — And The Attack He May Have Been Hiding From
He was not hiding in advance of an attack; he was seeking shelter after a fire was already burning.
“In any case, he made no attempt to get out,” Vagalinski said in a statement that appears across multiple news reports.
Whether he was unable to exit — trapped by the fire, overcome by smoke, or collapsed — or whether he made no attempt because he was unconscious or incapacitated before he could try will remain speculative without forensic evidence of cause of death.
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