Both the man and the girl were suffering from periodontal disease, a type of gum disease.“People born in Londinium lived alongside people from across the Roman Empire exchanging ideas and cultures, much like the London we know today,” she said.A DNA analysis of four ancient Roman skeletons found in London shows the first inhabitants of the city were a multi-ethnic mix similar to contemporary Londoners, the Museum of London said on Monday.Two of the skeletons were of people born outside Britain — one of a man linked genealogically to eastern Europe and the Near East, the other of a teenage girl with blue eyes from north Africa.The other two skeletons of people believed to have been born in Britain were of a woman with maternal ancestry from northern Europe and of a man also with links through his mother to Europe or north Africa.
We have always understood that Roman London was a culturally diverse place and now science is giving us certainty,” said Caroline McDonald, senior curator of Roman London at the museum. Body.The museum said in a statement that this was “the first multidisciplinary study of the inhabitants of a city anywhere in the Roman Empire”.The injuries to the man’s China famous aluminum scaffold skull suggest that he may have been killed in the city’s amphitheatre before his head was dumped into an open pit. Britain’s University of Durham researched stable isotopes from tooth enamel to determine migration patterns.The Romans founded Britain’s capital city in the middle of the first century AD, under the emperor Claudius..jpg A DNA analysis of four ancient Roman skeletons found in London shows the first inhabitants of the city were a multi-ethnic mix similar to contemporary Londoners, the Museum of London said on Monday
