Medieval African Found Buried in England

Discovery News ^ | Monday, May 3, 2010 | Raphael G. Satter, AP

[SunkenCiv]

Forensics experts at the University of Dundee Scotland say that the bones most likely belonged to a man from modern-day Tunisia who spent about a decade living in England before he died... The man -- who appears to have died of a spinal abscess -- was identified as African by studying his skeleton and the historical record of the friary where he was buried.

[freedumb2003]

His modern-day ancestors immediately filed for Reparations.

[SunkenCiv]

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[JoeProBono]

[Tainan]

This was a Morgan Freeman movie, wasn’t it?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

His modern-day ancestors immediately filed for Reparations.

Time-travel?

[BIGLOOK]

African is rather generic. Was he Tuareg, did his lineage date back to Carthage or was he a Phoenician descendant? Or was he just a run of the mill illegal immigrant.....

[Outlaw Woman]

...was identified as African by studying his skeleton ...

(sounds racist to me)

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

His burial on consecrated ground suggests that not only must he have converted to Christianity, he may have gone on to become a respected member of society.

I wonder what he would say about creeping dhimmitude in Britain today...

He must have been a remarkable person.

[Tainan]

""We don't know much about the migration of ordinary people," he said.

Wise words indeed agrees the son of Scottish immigrants to the USA who was born in the frozen North, raised in the forests of the land known as Ohio and now lives on the coast of an island not too distant from mainland China in the mysterious, and sometimes confusing, Orient.

[Grizzled Bear]

...the bones most likely belonged to a man from modern-day Tunisia...

How did a man from modern day Tunisia end up in Medieval England?

[GeronL]

interesting

[mylife]

Hmmm... to early to be Othello.

[stefanbatory]

His name is Achu, son of Asniz...

[mylife]

The same way they are getting there now.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) That would explain the size of the hankies he was wearing.

[Scotsman will be Free]

He played a moor in a robin hood movie.

[Mmogamer]

Well there were several Christian kingdoms in Africa during the time period... maybe he came from one of those.

[SunkenCiv]

With that back problem, he probably wasn’t tupping too many white ewes, either.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Could be.