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Near Where Emperor Diocletian Was Said to Be Born Archaeologists Find a Body Buried Face-Down — A Fate Usually Reserved for Outcasts

The body has been lying face-down for close to two thousand years. When archaeologists reached tomb 162, on the outskirts of modern Solin, Croatia, they immediately noticed something at odds with the rest of the cemetery: the deceased had not been laid on their back, as Roman custom required, but on their stomach. Around the […]

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